I set preempt on FW1 only.
-Steve S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mikel Lindsaar > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:18 AM > To: OpenBSD general usage list > Subject: "heartbeating" Carp ? > > Hi all, > > > Due to this, carp on Firewall 1 did not think it was down, and so, > seemed to be ignoring the pre-emption being attempted by firewall 2. > So I ended up having packets going into firewall 2, but then trying to > get out through firewall 1. > > Both firewalls have the preempt option set in sysctl.conf

