FreeBSD CARP load balancing.

[Gleb Popov]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 20/02/2017 19:07, Gleb Popov wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk
> > wrote:
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>> Does LAGG do what you need?
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> Doesn't seem so. I need to balance incoming traffic between several hosts.
> If I understood it correctly, lagg can be used to load-balance outgoing
> traffic only.
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> LAGG does incoming and outgoing but only on a single host, so it does
> sound like it won't help you.
>
> That said what your doing does sound quite out of the ordinary,
>

 So, that *net.inet.carp.arpbalance *sysctl was out of ordinary feature?
That probably explains it.

is there a reason you're trying to copy the traffic to multiple hosts?
>

Not copy, but distribute. I just don't want to wait current CARP master die
to make another computer become active, but to switch between them in some
fashion (round-robin or whatever).


>
> Might be a good idea to explain exactly what your trying to achieve.
>
>     Regards
>     Steve
>