Ahoy. I'm seeing what appears to be erroneous interaction between CARP and if_bridge on multiple machines with a variety of Ethernet controllers and architectures. I've observed it on 7.2-R and 8.0-R. The test setup is simple enough:

CARP master:

FreeBSD t30 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #5: Sun Feb 14 20:22:41 EST 2010 r...@t30:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/T30 i386

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
       options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
       inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
dc0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       options=8<VLAN_MTU>
       ether 00:04:5a:a8:e0:bf
       inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
       status: active
carp0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> metric 0 mtu 1500
       inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00
       carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 0

CARP backup:

FreeBSD ultra5 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 18 15:19:39 UTC 2010 bo...@ultra5:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.carp sparc64

hme0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
       ether 08:00:20:f5:65:d4
       media: Ethernet autoselect
xl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
       ether 00:01:03:2c:06:6d
       inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
       status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
       options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
       inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
carp0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> metric 0 mtu 1500
       inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00
       carp: MASTER vhid 1 advbase 1 advskew 100
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       ether 3a:e6:09:2d:da:bc
       id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
       maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
       root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
       member: xl0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
               ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 200000
       member: hme0 flags=8<SPAN>
               ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200000

In summary, I have a basic CARP configuration and, on the backup CARP machine, a bridge with the CARP device's physical interface in it. The purpose of this setup is the ability to monitor traffic passing through that interface using another machine. If the master CARP machine is disconnected from the network, the CARP interface on the backup machine correctly changes to the MASTER state, but does not act on traffic bound for the shared IP address--192.168.0.1. tcpdump shows the traffic coming in on the correct physical interface, but it is never replied to, or, in the case of routing, forwarded. Removing xl0 from the bridge on the backup machine instantly fixes this, and the shared IP address behaves as expected. Adding xl0 back to the bridge while the backup CARP interface is in the MASTER state keeps things running correctly, so the problem is only observed when xl0 is part of the bridge during the CARP transition from BACKUP to MASTER. Thoughts?

-Boris
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