nobody has that problem. I just ask for two mac entries at IXes. there is no solution for you (well, you could sit down and code, but - warning: very much nontrivial, maybe completely undoable)
* Paolo Di Francesco <pai...@tin.it> [2009-11-19 13:26]: > 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 > > > > > -- > > Ciao Ciao > > _ > ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... > ~ > -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
