carp+openospfd

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 07:51:52 Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> Hi list,  (I already ask this on -net, but I get no answers)
>
>  I have two 100Mbit link (L2L, lan to lan) between the company and our
> datacenter, on each side I have two redudant (pf+carp) firewalls.
>
>  I configured one vlan for each 100Mbit link and used carp to do the
> failover between machines on each side, the vlan interfaces are
> configured without ip address (with Max's
> carpdev patch), only carp interfaces have ips.
>
>  I want to use OpenOSPFD to distribute our internal routes and do
> automatic failover+loadbalance of this two 100Mbit links.
>
>  This work ? Someone have a similar setup ? Any hints ?

I think using OSPF and CARP on the same interface could have
unexpected results.

I would use CARP on the "lan to lan" link to provide redundancy
and load balancing. Do you have to use OSPF?
That is, is there an OSPF domain in which you have to be part of?

Nikos