carp advskew not 'sticking'

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Nov 1, 2009, at 19:09, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

> On a set of gw boxes I have 5 carp interfaces.  4 are working fine,  
> but on one for some reason the advskew setting isn't "sticking" (and  
> I get carp2: incorrect hash).   I'm running 7.2-STABLE from a few  
> days ago.
>
> gw-a# ifconfig carp2 vhid 12 advskew 100 pass abc123 10.0.100.1/24
> gw-a# ifconfig carp2
> carp2: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	inet 10.0.100.1 netmask 0xffffff00
> 	carp: BACKUP vhid 12 advbase 1 advskew 0
>
> gw-b# ifconfig carp2 vhid 12 advskew 200 pass abc123 10.0.100.1/24
> gw-b# ifconfig carp2
> carp2: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	inet 10.0.100.1 netmask 0xffffff00
> 	carp: MASTER vhid 12 advbase 1 advskew 0


Hi everyone,

Just for the sake of the archives:

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this was caused by another set of boxes  
mistakenly on the same vlan with the same vhid.


  - ask