> -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Christopher Vance > > I have a network being installed with a pair of 3.8 firewalls running > carp for failover. Temporarily, their external connection is via > residential grade router and wireless ADSL modem, with the router > doing pppoe. A real network is on order from the local monopoly ISP. > > I'm happily using kernel pppoe on my 3.9 beta machine at home, so I'm > wondering if I can remove the residential router, get both the > firewalls to run kernel pppoe and still do carp to determine which one > gets the inbound external traffic. > > carp over pppoe over em0? > > pppoe over carp over em0? > > both pppoe and carp over em0?
As an experiment I tried to create a carp interface in the same subnet as a pppoe0 interface. It crashed/panicked my 3.8-stable box. I decided carp over a point-to-point protocol didn't make much sense and never pursued it further. -Steve S.
