Hi Martin, Thanks for your suggestion.
Indeed it does clear the SIOCAIFADDR errors, however there are new errors and the config is more unstable :( - New boot errors are; "carp0: master_down event in INIT state" - Instability after the firewall has booted; CARP statuses initialise as Backup (and don't go Master temporarily) as they should do. Great.. But, if we now run "sh /etc/netstart" to make any change, the CARP interfaces fall into "status: invalid" and cannot be made functional again until another reboot. The previous config with the SIOCAIFADDR errors is more stable, because at least we can run "sh /etc/netstart" and make changes to the firewall without needing a reboot each time? What do you think is going on? And just to play devils advocate, why is there not a man page for hostname.carp? New hostname.carp0 carpdev ix0 advbase 2 advskew 10 carppeer 10.255.12.3 pass testpass vhid 212 inet 10.255.12.1 255.255.255.0 10.255.12.255 inet6 2a00:77e0:255:12::1 64 inet6 eui64 description "4D_CDC_VPLS" Cheers, Andy. On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Martin Pieuchot <m...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On 17/05/16(Tue) 16:37, Andy Lemin wrote: > > Hi Misc, > > > > Since 5.9 (maybe earlier), we noticed that our CARP interfaces no longer > > behave as before, don't initialise properly on boot up, and throw errors > at > > boot. > > > > I know there has been lots of changes, especially IPv6. So hopefully this > > is a simple question and I'm just being stupid, and unable to find a man > > page that explains the correct format for hostname.carp ? > > > > > > Otherwise if their really is no man page for hostname.carp, then could > > someone please point us in the right direction. > > > > - Using the following examples; > > hostname.ix0 > > inet 10.255.12.2 255.255.255.0 10.255.12.255 > > inet6 2a00:77e0:255:12::2 64 > > inet6 eui64 > > description "BACKHAUL" > > !route add -net 10.1.0.0/16 10.255.12.254 > > > > hostname.carp0 > > inet 10.255.12.1 255.255.255.0 10.255.12.255 > > inet6 2a00:77e0:255:12::1 64 > > advbase 2 advskew 10 carpdev ix0 carppeer 10.255.12.3 pass testpass vhid > 212 > > inet6 eui64 > > description "BACKHAUL" > > > > - The following errors at boot are seen multiple times; > > ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: Invalid argument > > That's because you're trying to add addresses *before* configuring > a "carpdev" (parent) interface.
