CARP on vSwitch

[Simon Dick]

On 18 October 2012 21:59, Rafael Henrique Faria
<rafaelhfaria at cenadigital.com.br> wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to use CARP on two FreeBSD servers in a ESX environment. But
> it's not working.
>
> The problem is that every frame sent from CARP gets back to the same host.
> This is an old problem:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg30562.html
>
> And already have a patch, but its 3 years old. And not yet commit-ed. There
> is any reason for this?
> I always used freebsd-update to keep the servers updated, and don't want to
> compile a kernel just to use the CARP.
>
> Someone have any suggestion or correction to this problem?

I found the following page useful when getting CARP working between
ESXi servers:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/CARP_Configuration_Troubleshooting#ESX_VDS_Promisc_Workaround