Carp Suppression

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:00:36PM -0400, Josh Kayse wrote:
J> The reason we are using CARP on a PLIP interface is to allow us to
J> have redundant connections between 2 transparent bridging firewalls. 
J> Instead of sending packets over our network, we isolate them onto a
J> PLIP interface and crossover interface.  We then use ifstaded to
J> monitor the carp interfaces and shut down bridging on one of the
J> machines.

AFAIU, you use PLIP line as some flag that triggers suppression. If
slave "sees" master via PLIP, it keeps itself in slave mode. May be
I don't understand you right.

Although the idea is not officially supported, it is interesting. Can you
please draw your setup, since I don't understand it clearly?

Bringing link state support for p2p interfaces is a TODO, although
CARP is not going to be supported on p2p interfaces officially.

J> I will refrain from submitting any code to the community in the future.

Why?

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