carp for IPv6?

Michael Sinatra michael at rancid.berkeley.edu
Tue Jul 5 03:26:49 UTC 2011


On 07/04/11 19:59, Doug Barton wrote:
> If I try to set up a carp interface for IPv6 on a recent 8.2-STABLE I
> get an error using either /64 or /128 as the mask:
>
> ifconfig carp2 vhid 4 advskew 0 pass mycleverpass 2001:a:b:c::2/64
>
> ifconfig 2001:a:b:c::2/64: bad value (width too large)
>
> There are no examples for IPv6 in the man page, or the handbook; and I
> can't find any on line. I'm interested in configuration for the command
> line, and rc.conf.

ifconfig_carp0="vhid 80 advskew 120 pass yomama 128.32.206.100/32"
ipv6_ifconfig_carp0="2607:f140:ffff:ffff::80/128"

Works on 8.2-STABLE (June 7, 2011).

Note that I cannot get carp to work properly without configuring an IPv4 
address.

michael


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