CARP and NIC-teaming on ESXi

[Sebastiaan van Erk]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I had already found the promiscuous mode of the virtual switch that the 
boxes are on, otherwise CARP does not work at all. CARP itself works (I 
have it set up with 2 real ESXi machines each with a virtual FreeBSD 
machine which is doing CARP, so that if either physical machine fails, 
the CARP kicks in).

The only problem is that together with NIC teaming on ESXi it breaks; 
even when I just set the second NIC to standby mode. Do you have any 
idea where I can find the settings and which ones to tune?

Regards,
Sebastiaan

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 10:20 +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
>> I see something like this (with carp 
>> advertisements approximately every second):
>>
>> 10:08:11.241213 00:00:5e:00:01:4a
> 
> There are a handful of settings buried deep in ESXi related to virtual
> switch promiscuous mode, multicast, and MAC spoofing (transmitting from
> the VRRP/HSRP/CARP address).  You have to configure them in about 3-4
> places.  ~BAS
> 
> 
> 
> 
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