Single IP failover without carpdev

[Alexandre Biancalana]

On 7/20/07, David DeSimone <fox at verio.net> wrote:
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> That is OpenBSD's documentation you are referring to, but this is
> FreeBSD we are talking about.  The implementation is not the same.
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> In order for CARP to be effective, it must send out hello packets on a
> particular interface.  Under OpenBSD, I believe there is a "carpdev"
> option for ifconfig, which allows you to set the interface explicitly.
> However, FreeBSD's implementation (at least in 6.x where I'm familiar
> with it) is missing that option.  Instead, the interface is chosen by
> matching the IP address of the carp interface to the same subnet as the
> physical interface.
>
> In a case where your ISP has only assigned a single IP address to you,
> you cannot (legally) assign a pair of addresses to your firewalls and
> then assign a third IP to CARP in order to have it bind correctly to
> the external interface.  Under OpenBSD, you could assign private RFC1918
> addresses to the external interfaces, and use "carpdev" to assign a
> virtual public IP, but it seems that is not possible with FreeBSD.
>
> If I am wrong, I hope that someone will correct my understanding.


Exactly this! Want I want to know is if exists some alternative way to
configure this....