last try (anyone who here who has a working carp setup??)

[Matthew Hagerty]

Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:

>Hi,
>Been trying to make this work for the past three days,
>yet still no luck.
>
>On host A (which is suppose to be the master):
>
>xl0:
>flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>mtu 1500
>        options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>        inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe88:d8c%xl0 prefixlen 64
>scopeid 0x1
>        inet 10.10.8.144 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
>10.10.8.255
>        ether 00:01:02:88:0d:8c
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
><full-duplex>)
>        status: active
>plip0:
>flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT>
>mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
>16384
>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>carp0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500
>        inet 10.10.8.146 netmask 0xffffff00
>        carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 0
>
>
>
>On host B (which is supposed to be the backup)
>xl0:
>flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>mtu 1500
>        options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>        inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe90:1957%xl0 prefixlen 64
>scopeid 0x1
>        inet 10.10.8.145 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
>10.10.8.255
>        ether 00:01:02:90:19:57
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
><full-duplex>)
>        status: active
>plip0:
>flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT>
>mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
>16384
>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>carp0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500
>        inet 10.10.8.146 netmask 0xffffff00
>        carp: BACKUP vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 100
>
>
>Even host B with a higher advskew, both of them seems
>to be the BACKUP... no MASTER at all. pinging
>10.10.8.146 won't reply.... however.. arping works?
>Now the big question... how am I going to use this
>virtual IP if I can't even ping it???
>
>
>Thanks...
>
>
>  
>
Please post the commands you are using to set up carp on each machine?
Also, can you connect to the machines via their unique IP addresses
(ping .144 and .145)?

Matthew