[pf4freebsd] Re: RELENG_5 and carp patches - Status

[sam]

Max Laier wrote:

>On Wednesday 15 September 2004 19:33, Bruno Afonso wrote:
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>>=> WORKS:
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>>I've set carp0 and carp1 with the ips my NAT box uses and it's working
>>flawlessly up until now (some hours). I have yet to set the backup box
>>as it's really really old and I'm waiting for it to compile world and
>>kernel... :)
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>>I will try failover in the next days.
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>>=> DOES NOT WORK:
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>>ifconfig pfsync syncif <interface> does not work
>>carp-testing-box# ifconfig pfsync0 up syncif fxp0
>>ifconfig: syncif: bad value
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>Ugh ... this got completely forgotten. Check the patch at: 
>http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ifconfig.pfsync.patch (hope it still 
>applies) it will certainly cause rejects with the carp-ifconfig ...
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This patch looks quite old compared to the one released in Aug.
Can I only use the patches in Aug?

Sam.

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>>accessing carp'ed IP address does not work
>>carp-testing-box# ping IP
>>PING IP (IP): 56 data bytes
>>ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
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>EPERM is clearly a problem of your firewalling rules on the box that is trying 
>to ping.
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>>I also get "arp_rtrequest: bad gateway IP (!AF_LINK)" in /var/log/messages.
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>This described in: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/CARP/README and it's not 
>a problem only a bit distrubing.
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>>netstat -sv carp does not work
>>carp-testing-box# netstat -s -p carp
>>netstat: kvm not available
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>hmmm ... looks like netstat has been built with different headers as the 
>kernel. Try make installincludes and rebuild+install netstat.
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>>netstat -rn neither (which is very bad!)
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>>carp-testing-box# netstat -rn
>>netstat: kvm not available
>>Routing tables
>>rt_tables: symbol not in namelist
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>>Again, I'm only trying to share my experiences hoping someone also has
>>done some testing on this :)
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>>Best,
>>BA
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>>Bruno Afonso wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I've been trying to play with CARP, by applying the carp patch
>>>(20040823-carp.RELENG_5.diff) to RELENG_5. The patch applies cleanly but
>>>I can't get it to successfully compile the kernel. I can build world
>>>with the patch applied.
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>>>Any successful stories? :)
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>>>BA
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