> The situation is, one of the major peering point on the east coast of > the US, because of pass abuse of less then proper ISP, now required and > register access to the peering point based on mac address and needs to > be register with them, makes it a bit harder to replace your routers > with multiple BGPd and CARP for reliability. Also, a bit more > interesting is the fact that multiple ISP using CARP, for easy of use I > guess pick the same CARP interface and end up with MAC address > conflict, but more over, the MAC address registration now needs to be > valid meaning one of the valid register here:
The 00:00:5e:xxx MAC used by CARP (and VRRP) is multicast. I don't think you can change a multicast lladdr to a unicast one. Wouldn't it make more sense to have multiple (non-carp) addresses on the peering lan, ask your peers to setup a session with both routers, and just use carp to cater for any of your own boxes that need a static route?
