svn commit: r232486 - stable/9/sbin/ifconfig

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 4 March 2012 14:37, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: remko
> Date: Sun Mar  4 10:37:26 2012
> New Revision: 232486
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232486
>
> Log:
>  Add an ifconfig carp option that enables users to set
>  the state of the carp cluster.
>
>  This is a direct commit to stable/9 because -HEAD's
>  code is very different. I discussed this with Gleb
>  and the reason for this is that since we do not
>  touch the kernel itself and are not adding very
>  weird or confusing things, we can commit this to the
>  stable branch directly.
>
>  The options 'master' and 'backup' are now available,
>  which enables the administrator to force a node into
>  the backup or master state on the cluster. Ofcourse
>  preempt has to be disabled otherwise the master node
>  will become master again.
>
>  One can do that with:
>
>  sysctl net.inet.carp.preempt=0
>
>  After that one can schedule maintenance on the node
>  normally running as the master and such.
>
>  PR:           100956
>  Discussed with:       glebius
>  MFC after:    1 weeks

What are the chances this will appear in 8.3-RELEASE?

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