IPv6 carp trouble

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Mon Feb 21 10:05:08 UTC 2011


On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

Hey,

> I've been setting up IPv6 on the various networks I look after over the last weeks.  Today the turn came to a system that's running two FreeBSD boxes with carp etc.
>
> I added an inet6 address to the ethernet interface and then the 'carp address' to carp0.  The carp address is used by our upstream provider.   Things appear to work except I can't ping the carp address -- even from localhost!

I got fairly unstable results as well while debugging kern/153848 - as
in the problem changed depending on test/fix/... which puzzled me. I
am not all quite sure why that was and I am sure I was just staring at
the thing not seeing it.  I should go back and stare more;-)

/bz

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