How ignore the arp request

[Eric Anderson]

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "shiner chen" <shiner_chen at yahoo.com.cn>
> To: <freebsd-cluster at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:07 AM
> Subject: How ignore the arp request
> 
> 
>> I want to establish a web-cluster.Now i face with the problem how to 
>> configure the virtual ip in back-end server and  how to ignore the arp 
>> request to virtual ip of back-end server. who can tell me ? please 
>> detail it !thanks
>>
Chris Knipe wrote:
 > Set the mac address to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, that should do the trick.
 > It's normally required running VRRP and stuff as well.
 >
 > arp -s ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
 >
 > --
 > Chris.
 >


If he is using 5.4 or later, he could use carp.  man carp for details - 
I think it does everything you need.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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