On Thursday 05 October 2006 13:58, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a generic way to create and configure carp interfaces > upon boot (so daemons can bind against the IP address), but keep the > carp interfaces 'down'. > > This is to allow the administrator to first check every service after > the failure, and if deemed ready, put the system back into production > by simply issuing: ifconfig carp0 up
Can't you just use a high value for advskew so it won't become MASTER unless all other hosts are dead as well. > But there are several problems: > ifconfig_carp0="foo bar" > will always "up" the interface first via /etc/rc.d/netif > ifconfig carp0 foo bar down > will ignore the 'down' and up the interface. This is especially > announing. I wish ifconfig would honour the down statement, even > though the manpage says the interface will always be brought up when > assigned its first address. > > Using a start_if.carp0 with the following contents > ifconfig carp0 vhid 1 1.2.3.4/24 > ifconfig carp0 down > > and > ifconfig_carp0="down" in rc.conf will result in an 'up' interface. I > also disabled devd, as it seems to be running pccard_ether carp0 start > as a result of the interface creation. Although it is started > sometime after the interface has been created. > > How are other people handling the startup of carp interfaces? -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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