Ah... put it will also failover all the OTHER carp interfaces on the box
when a physical interface goes down I had read the man page as that
being the ONLY feature of that sysctl variable.
net.inet.carp.preempt
Allow virtual hosts to preempt each other. It
is also used to failove
Rudy Rucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I noticed that if I reboot a server that is the MASTER, the carp0 on
> the BACKUP box goes into MASTER mode and stays that way -- even when
> the real master machine has finished rebooting. Is this a desired
> trait to prevent CARP from switching IPs out
