I have a problem with carp too on FreeBSD 10.1 servers and posted a
question but it seems to be more related to firmware network card.
However your problem seems simplier as I had the same :
If tcpdump reveals vrrp packets between servers and they are stuck in
INIT state, try this workaround :
Si
Hi,
I have CARP set up on two pairs of firewalls running OpenBSD directly
on metal. It works like a charm for almost 3 years now. Failover is
almost instant when shutting down master node.
I am trying to implement CARP on a pair of FreeBSD 10.1 servers running
on top of VMWare ESXi 5.5U2, but so