Hi, I have carp setup on two pairs of interfaces on our internal firewalls that sit between private network and DMZ. The problem is that, for some unknown reason, from time to time, carp fails over to nat2 (backup), and does not revert to nat1 (master), until I manually carpdemote nat2.
If I understand carp well, my configuration should revert to master as soon as it becomes available. If not, how can I achieve it? Here's carp interfaces config: nat1 (master): pacija@nat1:~ $ sudo cat /etc/hostname.carp1 inet 192.168.225.6 255.255.255.248 192.168.225.7 \ vhid 1 pass mypass carpdev bnx0 pacija@nat1:~ $ sudo cat /etc/hostname.carp2 inet 193.53.106.32 255.255.255.0 193.53.106.255 \ vhid 2 pass mypass carpdev bnx1 inet alias 193.53.106.33 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.34 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.35 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.36 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.37 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.38 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.39 255.255.255.255 nat2 (backup): pacija@nat2:~ $ sudo cat /etc/hostname.carp1 inet 192.168.225.6 255.255.255.248 192.168.225.7 \ vhid 1 advskew 100 pass mypass carpdev bnx0 pacija@nat2:~ $ sudo cat /etc/hostname.carp2 inet 193.53.106.32 255.255.255.0 193.53.106.255 \ vhid 2 advskew 100 pass mypass carpdev bnx1 inet alias 193.53.106.33 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.34 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.35 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.36 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.37 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.38 255.255.255.255 inet alias 193.53.106.39 255.255.255.255 -- Marko Cupać https://www.mimar.rs/