CARP demotion counter

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On 2015-12-10 19:28, Julien Cigar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm busy to setup a redundant router/firewall with two Soekris 6501, 
> PF,
> CARP and PFSync.
> 
> I wondered if it was normal that the CARP demotion counter
> (net.inet.carp.demotion) is greater than 0 at boot?
> 
> I'm asking this because it seems that the MASTER never returns from a
> BACKUP state, and it seems that's because the demotion counter is
> greater than 0 on both boxes (480) ..
> 
> Any idea .. ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Julien

  You need net.inet.carp.preempt=1 for MASTER returning to MASTER after a 
BACKUP state.
  Otherwise as long as another machine have the carp ip, it will stay to 
BACKUP.

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Emmanuel Vadot