On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:23:16 +0100, Luca Corti wrote: >Il giorno 17/nov/2010, alle ore 22.49, Jeff Ross ha scritto: >> I don't think Bresnan is going to take kindly to me just grabbing a couple >of IPs next to my static IP. >> >> If it really doesn't matter then *that's* the source of my confusion. > >You don't need to assign an IP address to each physical interface. You can >assign one just to the carp interface. > >carp will take care of activating that IP address on the master node only. It >is that simple. > >If you don't have three different IP addresses, just don't assign addresses to >physical interfaces.
I've used RFC1918 addresses for each on the WAN facing NICs and let carp assign the global IP to whichever one should have it. That let me access the individual hosts from the LAN. You may want that some times.... *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
