Carp vhid with vlan id's alignment

[David DeSimone]

Rafael Ganascim <rganascim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm planning and testing a new FreeBSD router, with vlans and carp
> interfaces. There are a lot of vlans, with high vlan IDs. We have, for
> example:
> 
> dot1q vlan id: 1530
> 
> Iface igb0
>  vlan1530
>   carp1530
>    vhid 10

The VHID is there to help differentiate multiple CARP implementations
on the same broadcast domain.  If you are only going to have one CARP
instance on each vlan, they can all use the same VHID in every vlan,
without conflicting.

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