Help with CARP implementation

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:35:49PM -0200, Tiago Cruz wrote:
T> > There are examples in 'man 4 carp'.
T> 
T> Yes, I've read all the FAQ from OpenBSD from CARP, man pages of carp and
T> pfsync. But the better article about this I found here:
T> 
T> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/
T> 
T> Following this I can do my redundancy in my LAN interface, BUT:
T> 
T> When I has downloading something, and do a reboot in MASTER firewall,
T> the download is not continued.
T> 
T> Is because I have 02 external links, one in each WAN interface?

Probably yes. Are you doing NAT and each link has NAT to a different
IP address? In this case you can't achieve such level of redundancy
that TCP sessions will survive failure of the one link.

T> What arp balance do exactly? It will be good for my?

You probably don't need it.

T> And... I need to use ifstated?

Only if you need to do something in case of CARP changing state.

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