On Monday 23 October 2006 22:38, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: > >> Sounds like you forgot the net.inet.carp.preempt sysctl. See the > >> begining > >> of the EXAMPLES section of carp(4). > > > > But I don't have multiple interfaces that all need to go up/down > > together. I need one carp interface to be master and one backup on > > box A, and the opposite master/backup on box B. Or am I totally > > misunderstanding with the preemtp sysctl is for? > > Forgot to mention that setting preempt sysctl does instantly make the > carp load balanced interfaces work as expected: balancing the load by > offering one master on each server. > > So I'll say that the example needs to be made more clear that preempt > needs to be on.
Make a suggestion on how it should be worded and submit as a doc PR. > It seems to me that preempt off is a mostly useless > configuraiton for load balance, but probably not for just simple > failover. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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