freevrrpd and em

[spe]

Hi,

FreeVRRPd project is halted and not supported anymore. You can take a 
look at carp for doing the same job efficiently.
If someone want to continue this project, let me know.

Regards,
Sebastien.
-- 
spe at phear.org

Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm trying to get freevrrpd working on an AMD64 6.0p4 box with an xl0 
> and em0 machine.
>
> Here is the config file:
>
>> [VRID]
>> serverid = 1
>> interface = xl0
>> priority = 254
>> addr = 192.168.0.4/32
>> password = xxxxx
>> vridsdep = 3
>> [VRID]
>> serverid = 2
>> interface = xl0
>> priority = 255
>> addr = 192.168.0.5/32
>> password = xxxxx
>> [VRID]
>> serverid = 3
>> interface = em0
>> priority = 254
>> addr = 192.168.101.5/32
>> password = xxxxx
>> vridsdep=1
>> monitoredcircuits=no
>> [VRID]
>> serverid=4
>> interface=em0
>> priority=255
>> addr=192.168.101.6/32
>> password=xxxxx
>> monitoredcircuits=no
>
> This used to work until this box replaced the old machine which had 
> fxp0 instead of em0; the other machine has fxp0 and fxp1.
>
> I had to add monitoredcirtuits=no, otherwise em0 would connect and 
> disconnect (no carrier) at 2 secs intervals (I read this on a post 
> somewhere).
> However this only solves part of the problems, since both boxes will 
> grab 192.168.101.5 and 192.168.101.6 at the same time.
> The same post reports this is fixed in CVS, so I went to the master 
> web site and followed instructions to do so. However my connection is 
> refused and I suspect that's a problem with the CVS server side.
>
> The other side (xl0) works perfectly.
>
> I cannot switch to carp, since the other machine is running 4.11.
>
> Any hint?
> Has someone been able to download the CVS sources? If so, would it be 
> too much trouble sending them to me?
> Any magic switch to put in conf?
>
> Remove .diespammer to answer to me directly, please.
>
>  bye & Thanks
>     av.