Hi All,

 

I appear to be suffering the same problem as many others on the internet with 
carp and vmware vsphere (ESX4) when running with redundant nics in the default 
failover mode which connect to two separate switches.

 

I have found this old thread - 
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg30562.html which talks 
about the exact same issue with a patch submitted to the list from Matthew 
Grooms which can be found here - 
http://www.shrew.net/static/patches/esx-carp.diff

 

After applying the patch, recompiling and setting net.inet.carp.drop_echoed=1 
in /etc/sysctl.conf my problem was solved!

 

Is there any way that this patch could be applied upstream as this vsphere 
setup is rather common where Cross-Stack EtherChannel cannot be deployed which 
is the known work around for this issue.

 

I also tried the patch submitted by Ermal Luçi which didn't work...

 

I did all my testing with freebsd8-current

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