There was a bug in sys/netinet/in.c that was fixed in the RELENG_6
branch, in revision 1.85.2.10 (see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/in.c.diff?r1=1.85.2.9;r2=1.85.2.10).
But, this fix hasn't yet made it into RELENG_6_3. I had a machine
panic on this bug, so I have patched the
Hello-
A few months ago I wrote a small patch that allows ifconfig to
explicitly set a carp device to MASTER or BACKUP state. The code is
based upon OpenBSD's ifconfig, which has this feature. This is handy
for situations where you want an active carp interface to fail over
to/take over fr