Re: carpdev ifconfig option?

2006-12-02 Thread Nick Barkas
As far as I know, the carpdev code from OpenBSD has not yet been ported. I've been wanting to have this in FreeBSD myself for awhile now, and was planning to spend some time on porting the OpenBSD code over, but have not had time to get to it yet. If I do get to it before someone else does,

setting carp device state with ifconfig(8)

2006-08-29 Thread Nick Barkas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi- I submitted a PR about a month ago with a patch to make ifconfig(8) able to manually set a carp(4) device's state (to either MASTER or BACKUP). I haven't received any feedback on the PR or patch, and just noticed that the PR was sent off initiall

Re: What Do These Devices Do?

2006-08-11 Thread Nick Barkas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 beno wrote: >>> vr0 >>> plip0 >>> lo0 man 4 vr; man 4 plip; man 4 lo FreeBSD typically has manual pages for drivers, in section 4 and named after the device. See also http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.ht

carpdev support from OpenBSD

2006-07-26 Thread Nick Barkas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello- There is a feature from OpenBSD's carp implementation that allows one to specify which device a carp interface will use, similar to how vlan devices are associated to a physical interface with the vlandev option to ifconfig. The change to supp