> On 23 Jul 2020, at 22:28, Guy Godfroy <guy.godf...@gugod.fr> wrote:
>
> Doesn't work better.
> I guess Sebastian is right, carp has to be assigned an IP to come up.
yeah, i just read the code a bit. they have to be able to communicate to be
able to elect which one is the active and which is the backup. i suggest using
an address like one in 169.254.x.y/16 so the carps can elect.
>
> Le 23/07/2020 à 03:15, David Gwynne a écrit :
>>> On 22 Jul 2020, at 22:59, Guy Godfroy <guy.godf...@gugod.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> So I read in 6.7 release note that it's finally possible to use dhclient on
>>> CARP interface. That's great news.
>>>
>>> However, I'm not sure how to use it on a hostname.if file. I tried to
>>> replace inet instruction directly with dhcp:
>>>
>>> dhcp vhid 11 carpdev em1 pass xxxx description "test"
>>>
>>>
>>> But that didn't do the trick: at boot time, none of my nodes carp were in
>>> master state so dhclient didn't manage to get any lease.
>>>
>>> So I have first to give a static IP to my carp in order to activate it, and
>>> only then trigger dhcp:
>>>
>>> inet [...] vhid 11 carpdev em1 pass xxxx description "test"
>>>
>>> dhcp
>>>
>>> It doesn't feel right. Is there a better way to do this?
>> hostname.if0 lines don't have to all be address configurations. generally
>> netstart just passes the statements directly to ifconfig.
>> does something like the following work in hostname.carp0?
>> description "test"
>> vhid 11 carpdev em1 pass xxxx
>> dhcp
>> dlg
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