Hello, collegues! In vlan2 I have 4 routers: rt1 (master) and rt2 (slave) grouped into VHID 50 in terms of CARP; rt3 (master) and rt4 (slave) grouped into VHID 2. Why don't I see carp advertisements from rt1? Instead, I see carp announcements only from rt3 (vhid2). Where am I wrong?
rt1: -> % ifconfig carp2 | grep -v inet carp2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:00:5e:00:01:32 description: Interlink index 5 priority 15 llprio 3 carp: MASTER carpdev vlan2 vhid 50 advbase 1 advskew 0 groups: carp status: master ks1@rt1 [05:44:47] [~] -> % sudo tcpdump -c 10 -ni carp2 proto carp tcpdump: listening on carp2, link-type EN10MB 05:44:54.003157 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:44:55.003217 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:44:56.003236 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:44:57.003276 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:44:58.003313 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:44:59.003354 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:45:00.003398 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:45:01.003431 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:45:02.003475 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] 05:45:03.003512 CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=2 advbase=1 advskew=0 demote=0 (DF) [tos 0x10] ks1@rt1 [05:45:03] [~] -> % sysctl net.inet.carp net.inet.carp.allow=1 net.inet.carp.preempt=1 net.inet.carp.log=2 ks1@rt1 [05:46:40] [~] -> % uname -r 6.8 ks1@rt1 [05:57:11] [~] -> % sudo sysctl net.inet.carp.log=7 net.inet.carp.log: 2 -> 7 ks1@rt1 [05:57:25] [~] -> % tail -f /var/log/messages Feb 20 05:57:57 border1 /bsd: carp2: ip_output failed: 13 Feb 20 05:57:58 border1 /bsd: carp2: ip_output failed: 13 Feb 20 05:57:59 border1 /bsd: carp2: ip_output failed: 13 Feb 20 05:58:00 border1 /bsd: carp2: ip_output failed: 13 Feb 20 05:58:01 border1 /bsd: carp2: ip_output failed: 13 ... I don't know what it means. Do I understand correctly that there can be only one master in the multicast domain that can send carp advertisements? Thanks. Regards, Den