CARP on backup doesn't relinquish MASTER

[Marko Lerota]

Rudy Rucker <crapsh at monkeybrains.net> writes:

> I noticed that if I reboot a server that is the MASTER, the carp0 on
> the BACKUP box goes into MASTER mode and stays that way -- even when
> the real master machine has finished rebooting.  Is this a desired
> trait to prevent CARP from switching IPs out of control?

Yes, it depends of what you have put in 'net.inet.carp.preempt'

if it's net.inet.carp.preempt=0 
than the backap will become master and stays that way 

and if it's net.inet.carp.preempt=1
then the "real" master will take over the IP address from backup 
server when he gets in the OK state 

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