On 8/1/08, Nikos Vassiliadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2008 06:54:02 Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > > The firewalls failover this is working great with Carp. My > > difficulties is to configure OpenOSPFD to distribute routes in this > > setup, > > > Two points: > 1) Did you try to run OSPF on the CARP interface? > Or the physical one? I don't think running OSPF > on the CARP interface will work, cause the CARP > interface receives nothing while at BACKUP mode.
OpenOSPFD always see CARP interfaces as passive... > > No, OSPF cannot provide load balancing, as FreeBSD does not support > equal cost multipath routing, that is you can use one and only one > next hop for a destination. So, in short, OSPF will not do load > balancing, as it does with other vendors you may be familiar with. bad news... I remember now that multiple fibs are too new on FreeBSD... Thinking again, I can survive with equal cost multipath routing and do the failover via script... How's good is our ECMP ? Have someone tested this ? > > If you run CARP on the LAN links as well(which you probably do), > you should test and see how CARP's ARP level load balancing fits > your network... It's working as expected Thank you again! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"