Hi all again
is the question too trivial or nobody is experiencing the same problem? :)
Thank you in advance!
> Dear All,
>
> I am having a doubt about the following scenario. We have two bgp
> routers, arp-balanced with carp. Both routers are running bgpd and
> everything looks nice. But I see that there is some problem (?) and I
> don't know how to solve this.
> The problem is that we are obviously balancing the two bgp routers with
> carp but if I lock the switch with the virtual MAC address of the carp
> interface, it stops working. This is because the router when receives
> the traffic, answers to the virtual MAC address BUT when it sends the
> traffic it uses the physical MAC address. (or something like that but
> the fact is that it uses both MACs)
> So I MUST use two MACs on the switch in order to make the system work.
> Unfortunately in some scenarios this is not acceptable due to the policy
> (one port, one fixed MAC)
>
> So I would like to know if there is any parameter to force the router to
> use ALWAYS the virtual MAC address (the carp MAC address).
>
> I am not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but I googled around with
> no success in order to make it work as I want.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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