CARP Status

[Oliver Fromme]

Bob McClure <> wrote:
 > I have several servers running CARP in an active/passive configuration.
 > Currently the only way that my scripts can determine if a given node is
 > master is by
 > periodically executing ifconfig carp1 and grepping for MASTER. Although this
 > works,
 > it's kind of clunky.
 > 
 > Is there a better way to detect the CARP status of a server?

If you set sysctl net.inet.carp.log=2, you'll get a log
entry every time the interface state changes.  You can
configure a handler (e.g. a script) in /etc/syslog.conf
that responds to such events.

If you're a C programmer, you can also use the kqueue(2)
API with EVFILT_NETDEV.  Then you will get a notification
each time an interface link goes down or comes up.  See
the kqueue(2) manual page for details.

Finally, a third possibility is to use devd(8).  See the
devd.conf(4) manual page for details.

Best regards
   Oliver

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