CARP related trivial question

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> 
> Date:		Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0100 
> Message-id:	<4EB16572.4080100 at my.gd> 

Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 11/1/11 8:19 AM, Snoop wrote:
> > Sorry but I have to re-post my question as I didn't get any exhaustive reply. I can't believe that nobody is aware of this anyhow.
> > P.S. Nop, there aren't related loadable modules in /boot/kernel.

Snoop is not on CC line, I hope he's on this list.
Snoop wrote :
	There aren't related loadable modules in /boot/kernel
So Snoop must install modules !
	# cd /sys/`uname -m`/conf && config GENERIC
	cd /usr/src/sys/modules ; make ; make install


> > ____________
> > 
> > Hi everybody,
> > I've got a pretty trivial question but I'm kind of disoriented.
> > 
> > In the CARP man pages is clearly stated
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html: 
> > __________________________________________________________________
> > "To enable support for CARP, the FreeBSD kernel must be rebuilt as
> > described in Chapter 9 with the following option:
> > device carp
> > 
> > Alternatively, the if_carp.ko module can be loaded at boot time. Add the
> > following line to the /boot/loader.conf:
> > if_carp_load="YES" "
> > __________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > I'm not new to FreeBSD but I didn't manage to load that as a module, not
> > while the OS is running neither at the startup adding the param on
> > loader.conf.
> > I'd love to do that instead of recompiling the kernel to get that
> > working on any node.
> > I'm talking about FreeBSD 8.1.
> > 
> > Am I missing something?
> > Any tip would be appreciated.
> > 
> 
> 
> You have already receive a reply on-list, which asked if you had
> /boot/kernel/if_carp* files .
> I haven't followed further so I'm not sure if you ever replied to it or not.
> 
> 
> Find below the same output from a 8.2-STABLE box:
> 
> 
> mybsd root  /boot/kernel
> 
>                                                                  # uname -a
> FreeBSD mybsd 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Wed Oct 12 16:58:51 CEST
> 2011     root at mybsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DAM  amd64
> 
> 
>                                                                  mybsd
> root  /boot/kernel
> 
>                                                            # ls -la
> /boot/kernel/if_carp*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   44384 Oct 12 17:11 /boot/kernel/if_carp.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  197856 Oct 12 17:11
> /boot/kernel/if_carp.ko.symbols
> 
> 
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Cheers,
Julian
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