CARP and spontaneous switching between MASTER - BACKUP

[Dmitriy Kirhlarov]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:51:06AM -0700, dmitry surovtsev wrote:

> Did anybody face the problem with spontaneous switching between
> MASTER - BACKUP carp machines? 

It can be result of drop packet for example.
You use very frequently advbase.

> The configuration is: 

My good worked config:
on master:
inet ${carp_ip} vhid 1 pass password netmask 0xffff0000 advbase 2 advskew 240

on slave:
inet ${carp_ip} vhid 1 pass carptest netmask 0xffff0000 advbase 3 advskew 250

I use 6_Stable from end of summer.

> After some time however I got an error from Squirrelmail: 
> "You need to authorized to have an acces to your mail", then Squirrelmail 
> proposes me to enter login and password again, second time. 

It look like, you start work with second node.

> I do that and then have an access to mailbox, BUT on the second, BACKUP, server. 
> ifconfig shows that first computer is still in MASTER mode, 
> and the second is still in BACKUP mode. 
> 
> What may be the problem? 

switch on net.inet.carp.log on both machines and look log.

WBR
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