Re: Spurious error from i[pf]_carp

2007-12-16 Thread Tom Judge
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Max Laier wrote: Alternatively you could change IPPROTO_CARP in netinet/in.h to another unused protocol number. This is really the preferred way of dealing with mixed CARP and VRRP environments as the CARP packets might in turn irritate the VRRP routers, too. This

Re: Spurious error from i[pf]_carp

2007-12-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Max Laier wrote: Alternatively you could change IPPROTO_CARP in netinet/in.h to another unused protocol number. This is really the preferred way of dealing with mixed CARP and VRRP environments as the CARP packets might in turn irritate the VRRP routers, too. This sounds like a common use c

Re: Spurious error from i[pf]_carp

2007-12-14 Thread Max Laier
On Friday 14 December 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Tom Judge wrote: > > I guess that there will be more than one VRRP implementation that > > does not generate packets with a header the same size as the carp > > header. > > > > I will look into generating a patch for this over the weekend, > > h

Re: Spurious error from i[pf]_carp

2007-12-14 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Tom Judge wrote: I guess that there will be more than one VRRP implementation that does not generate packets with a header the same size as the carp header. I will look into generating a patch for this over the weekend, however any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated before I start wor

Spurious error from i[pf]_carp

2007-12-14 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I have just looked into the source of an error that we are seeing a lot on our FreeBSD 6.2-p5 systems. The error is: "carp_input: received len 20 < sizeof(struct carp_header)" The messages are coming from a pair of systems that are configured to have a pair of load balancing carp interfa