IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 6/12/12 3:05 PM, Adam Strohl wrote:
> On 6/12/2012 19:48, Pete French wrote:
>> I ran into some - aliases on a CARP integface did not seem
>> to work proprly - but if you workaround that then it appears
>> to work fine. We are using it in production with no problems.
> 
> I have noticed this issue (CARP + IPv4 aliases) with older (pre 9.x)
> versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> I maintain some legacy 6.2 servers and had to eventually add ifconfig
> statements inside rc.local to get the links to coalesce.  6.2 appears to
> ignore _alias<n> directives entirely inside rc.conf, and has real issues
> if you add/delete aliases to a CARP interface while its up (both peers
> end up thinking they're MASTER).
> 
> In 9.x it all works as expected at least for IPv4 (rc.conf
> carp<n>_alias<n> entries, aliases, on the fly reconfiguring).
> 


Like Pete, we haven't experienced problems related to aliases either here.

Running on a variety of 8.1-RELEASE , 8.2-PRERELEASE, 8.2-RELEASE, and
now thankfully 8.3-STABLE ;)