[SOLVED ]Re: packet loss with carp on 6.2

[Chris Buechler]

Klavs Klavsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to close this thread - I've confirmed that it was indeed a switch
> problem.
>
> The "funny" thing, is howcome only CARP triggered it.
>   

Because CARP uses multicast, and there are a ton of buggy and/or 
misconfigured switches out there that break, block, or are otherwise 
flaky with multicast traffic.

Chris