Hey everybody, After reading the man page of carp (4) and since I am currently working
with this protocol I have a question concerning the first bug mentioned in the bug section and a more general one. I quote from the man page.. If load balancing is used in setups where the carpdev does not share an IP in the same subnet as carp, it is not possible to use the IP of the carp interface for self originated traffic. If I understand this sentence well, it is not possible to use load balancing in cases where the carpdev does not have a static IP since by design both the CARP interface as well as the physical interface have to be in the same subnet. Is that true? My second question is more about the way carp advertisments are exchanged between hosts. All the traffic that has to do with carp's control messages passes through the physical interfaces carp interfaces are bound to. What is the rationale behind this decision? Would it be possible to redirect this traffic over a dedicated network from another interface of the machine that uses carp? Thank you very much.
