CARP interfaces and mastership issue

[Brian Seklecki (Mobile)]

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>> What would help here, is for a carp interface to wait a given delay
>> (tunable through a sysctl ?) after creation or after being brought up

I see now.

The tunable sounds like a good idea; we should check OpenBSD, they 
probably already implemented something and we're behind.

If not, a "preempt dampener" feature would be an awesome return feature.

Might need to implment another state: MASTER-LISTENING (or LEARNING) ah a 
STP.

~BAS

>
> I have the same observation. Perhaps it can just avoid going up 
> initially --- it will become master anyway if it does not hear anything 
> on the interface.