device carp / freebsd-update

[Max Laier]

Hello Andy,

On Monday 21 August 2006 15:53, Andy Hilker wrote:
> we are currently migrating our hosts to 6.1-RELEASE with official
> binaries (from CD). This is because we want to make use of
> freebsd-update binary patches.
>
> Our problem is that GENERIC kernel does not contain "device carp".
> Is there any posibility to use carp without "device carp" in GENERIC
> e.g. with /boot/loader.conf like other pseudo devices?

No, there is no such possibility.  The reason for this, is that carp(4) 
has to register a protocol which cannot be (easily) done on-the-fly.  
Since you should have a fail-over running it shouldn't be a problem to 
build a carp enabled backup while the failover host takes care of the 
service, however.

As a fallback there is a userland implementaion of carp (google "ucarp"), 
but I am not sure what the status of that is or if it works with the 
in-kernel version.

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