[Bug 208681] [patch] CARP preemption explanation is misleading

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            Bug ID: 208681
           Summary: [patch] CARP preemption explanation is misleading
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: patch
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: philipp at copythat.de
          Keywords: patch

Created attachment 169161
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=169161&action=edit
clarified proposal for the preemption note

The handbook states in a note on CARP:
> If preemption has been enabled, hostc.example.org might not release the virtual IP
> address back to the original master server.

The preemption setting does the opposite of what I would interpret this
sentence to convey. Preemption needs to be enabled in order for the system with
a lower advskew value (the original master) to take the address back.

In writing this, I wonder if it also needs a sentence on where to enable
preemption (master, backup or both...). I'd assume there are very few
scenarios, where different settings on nodes in the same group would be useful
or necessary.

I have attached a proposed change for this note.

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