bhyve and CARP?

[Julian Elischer]

On 1/03/2016 8:43 AM, dweimer wrote:
> I am considering setting up a bhyve virtual machine to run pfSense. 
> Not too thrilled with the CPU heat on the PC Engines APU1D4 when 
> under heavy load, but don't want to rely entirely on a VM. As I like 
> still having internet if I would have to take my server offline for 
> disk replacement or other issues, having web access to search for 
> errors is a big plus. So in order to avoid spending money on a new 
> piece of hardware I thought why not do a VM with CARP fail over to 
> the physical. I am not finding much searching on FreeBSD byhve and 
> CARP, I know its somewhat of an issue withing VMware on ESX making 
> sure you enable the right options on the virtual switches and 
> interfaces.
>
> Enable promiscuous mode on the vSwitch
> Enable "MAC Address changes"
> Enable "Forged transmits"
>
> Before I got started on the setup I was curious if anyone has done 
> something similar, or know if this isn't possible on bhyve at the 
> current version? I am running my system currently on 10.3-BETA3.
>
this makes one wonder if it would be possible to run the pfsense code 
in a vnet Jail.