Chris Buechler wrote:
CARP does L3. At this point it doesn't detect dead hosts so a
percentage of your requests will fail if one of the boxes dies, but
that's being worked on.
I'm not certain I understand what you're talking about - the only
load-balancing I can find described for CARP (net.inet.carp.arpbalance)
only does incoming load-balancing at L2; that's according to the latest
OpenBSD carp(4) man page I can find. Do we do it differently in
pfSense? If so, I'm curious how! Essentially, I've a routed network
with a lot of high-load clients that I want to balance over a virtual
gateway IP without being on the same segment as these core routers. If
I can do that currently (which the man page seems to contraindicate),
I'm perfectly happy.
As far as the apcupsd goes, I certainly understand that pfSense is
relatively safe against power outages, but most machines on my network
are UPS-ed as well, and if nothing else, it'd be kinda nice to be able
to monitor how long I have left on battery, line voltages, etc. Fun
stuff like that we Geeks do at home and make our friends/inlaws roll
their eyes.
Thanks for the responses, guys!
