IPv6 carp trouble

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Feb 21, 2011, at 2:03, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

>> I've been setting up IPv6 on the various networks I look after over the last weeks.  Today the turn came to a system that's running two FreeBSD boxes with carp etc.
>> 
>> I added an inet6 address to the ethernet interface and then the 'carp address' to carp0.  The carp address is used by our upstream provider.   Things appear to work except I can't ping the carp address -- even from localhost!
> 
> I got fairly unstable results as well while debugging kern/153848 - as
> in the problem changed depending on test/fix/... which puzzled me. I
> am not all quite sure why that was and I am sure I was just staring at
> the thing not seeing it.  I should go back and stare more;-)

Ah, that's encouraging.   I was staring at my rc.conf and pf.conf until my eyes nearly gave out trying to figure out what I was doing wrong until I realized that it was similarly broken on lo0.  :-)

FWIW, I am running 7.4-PRE as of about a week ago. (On Soekris and Alix boards and not too keen on upgrading to 8 just yet).


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