carp(4) and VRRP on the same segment

[Claudio Jeker]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:43:46PM +0000, Tom Judge wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We have had some issues with running both carp and VRRP in the same
> physical segment.  It has mostly caused issues with the embedded devices
> running VRRP.  One other side affect is the hugely verbose output on the
> FreeBSD side where carp is complaining about corrupt PDU's.
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> To work around this I changed the carp protocol number from the VRRP
> allocated number to an unassigned number (241). Simple patches can be
> found here:
> http://svn.tomjudge.com/freebsd/patches/carp-vrrp-interop/
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> 
> Maybe this can be made into a sysctl for carp, so that the administrator
> can select a different protocol number at boot/runtime if desired.
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I think you will hit the other issues with this.
Normaly it is sufficent to ensure that the carp vhid and the VRRP vrid are
not equal.

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:wq Claudio