svn commit: r232486 - stable/9/sbin/ifconfig

[Remko Lodder]

We might ask whether we can commit this to 8.3 quicker then the suggested
MFC period. I'll copy you in the request.


On Mar 5, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:

> On 4 March 2012 14:37, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: remko
>> Date: Sun Mar  4 10:37:26 2012
>> New Revision: 232486
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232486
>> 
>> Log:
>>  Add an ifconfig carp option that enables users to set
>>  the state of the carp cluster.
>> 
>>  This is a direct commit to stable/9 because -HEAD's
>>  code is very different. I discussed this with Gleb
>>  and the reason for this is that since we do not
>>  touch the kernel itself and are not adding very
>>  weird or confusing things, we can commit this to the
>>  stable branch directly.
>> 
>>  The options 'master' and 'backup' are now available,
>>  which enables the administrator to force a node into
>>  the backup or master state on the cluster. Ofcourse
>>  preempt has to be disabled otherwise the master node
>>  will become master again.
>> 
>>  One can do that with:
>> 
>>  sysctl net.inet.carp.preempt=0
>> 
>>  After that one can schedule maintenance on the node
>>  normally running as the master and such.
>> 
>>  PR:           100956
>>  Discussed with:       glebius
>>  MFC after:    1 weeks
> 
> What are the chances this will appear in 8.3-RELEASE?
> 
> -- 
> wbr,
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