Re: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Jordan Gordeev wrote: The only load balancing that CARP supports, to my knowledge, is ARP level load balancing. From carp(4): The ARP load balancing has some limitations. First, ARP balancing only works on the local network segment. It cannot balance traffic that

Re: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Jordan Gordeev wrote: The only load balancing that CARP supports, to my knowledge, is ARP level load balancing. From carp(4): The ARP load balancing has some limitations. First, ARP balancing only works on the local network segment. It cannot balance traffic that crosses a router, beca

RE: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Ross Draper
reebsd.org Subject: Re: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems The only load balancing that CARP supports, to my knowledge, is ARP level load balancing. From carp(4): The ARP load balancing has some limitations. First, ARP balancing only works on the local network segment. It cannot balance traffic that

Re: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Jordan Gordeev
The only load balancing that CARP supports, to my knowledge, is ARP level load balancing. From carp(4): The ARP load balancing has some limitations. First, ARP balancing only works on the local network segment. It cannot balance traffic that crosses a router, because the router itself w

Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Ross Draper
Hi Firstly, many thanks to Stefan (who provided me a diff of the CURRENT update) and Bruce for advising me that the "multiple CARP interface destroy" bug is fixed in CURRENT. Jordan, thanks for your reply, but I cant find a reference to CARP being unsuitable for this purpose in the CARP man pag

Re: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Jordan Gordeev
On OpenBSD web server load balancing is achieved using PF + hoststated. Using CARP is not appropriate as is noted in the (FreeBSD) man page. I think VRRP is also not appropriate. Ross Draper wrote: Hi All I was wondering if I could get some advice from those of you who have successfully impl

Re: Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-27 Thread Stefan Lambrev
HI all, Ross Draper wrote: Hi All I was wondering if I could get some advice from those of you who have successfully implemented ip address failover systems such as carp and freevrrpd. I am trying to set up a high availability web loadbalancer using a pair of freebsd 6.2 boxes. I have trie

Vrrp/CARP/ucarp Problems

2007-03-26 Thread Ross Draper
Hi All I was wondering if I could get some advice from those of you who have successfully implemented ip address failover systems such as carp and freevrrpd. I am trying to set up a high availability web loadbalancer using a pair of freebsd 6.2 boxes. I have tried a number of ways to perform fa