CARP carpdev

[Hugo Silva]

On 02/14/12 17:33, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hugo Silva<hugo at barafranca.com>  wrote:
>> Looks like there's been conversations about porting this to FreeBSD since at
>> least 2007.
>>
>> Are there any plans to have ifconfig carpdev available in 9.0-STABLE?
>
> CARP support has been redone in 10-CURRENT, removing the whole "carp0"
> pseudo-interface support, and just enabling the CARP protocol on the
> existing network interfaces. This includes the equivalent of "carpdev"
> support.
>
> Search the -current archives for more information, CFT, and so on.
>
> I don't recall seeing anything about specific plans to MFC to
> stable/9, but could be mis-remembering things.
>


http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=228571

The single IP limitation may be a problem in some locations..

Did not find anything about a possible MFC either. glebius@ is cc'd, 
perhaps he can add something, but based on 
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/UPDATING, I don't think it's been 
MFCd (there's a primer for the new carp in current's UPDATING)\