I am wondering if I am understanding carp interfaces correctly. I have a SPAM gateway that runs on two servers. I want to enable a failover scenario. I want to test the interface on the backup server. So the primary server is shut down. I enable carp and it starts up fine and works for a while but after a while the port stops responding to ping or anything else.
Did I miss something in the setup or is this a bug of some sort?
Do I need preempt for a failover?
I assume the backup interface (advskew 100) can start without the primary being up yet?

Here are my settings:
net.inet.ip.same_prefix_carp_only: 0
net.inet.carp.allow: 1
net.inet.carp.preempt: 0
net.inet.carp.log: 1
net.inet.carp.arpbalance: 0
net.inet.carp.suppress_preempt: 0
FreeBSD geordi.icarz.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Nov 1 15:13:18 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ICARZ i386

Server2 (The backup)
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 207.99.22.23  netmask 255.255.255.128"
cloned_interfaces="carp0"
ifconfig_carp0="vhid 4 pass somepassword advskew 100 207.99.22.25/25"

fxp0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       options=8<VLAN_MTU>
       inet 207.99.22.23 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 207.99.22.127
       ether 00:13:72:c0:0a:b8
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
       status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
       inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
carp0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 1500
       inet 207.99.22.25 netmask 0xffffff80
       carp: MASTER vhid 4 advbase 1 advskew 100

Server1 (The primary)  (currently shutdown,  IE the carp is disabled)
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 207.99.22.7  netmask 255.255.255.128"
cloned_interfaces="carp0"
ifconfig_carp0="vhid 4 pass somepassword advskew 0 207.99.22.25/25"

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