On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:04:35PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 22:45:49 Oct 18, Vivek Ayer wrote: > > Actually, I feel kind of stupid for asking the question. Of course you > > can never ssh into the virtual carp interface, which is what I was > > trying to do. SSHing into the physical interface still works no > > problem. Then again, it would be Yay..CARP is working 100%.
You can do most things with a CARP interface that you can with a regular interface. Exceptions would be applications that rely on bpf. > You can of course use the CARP virtual interface. In fact you are > supposed to use that if you setup CARP. ;) For services that you want to failover, yes. For administrative purposes (i.e. ssh access), probably not. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
