Hi,
I'm running a setup of Active/backup firewalls with carp/pfsync
successfully for the last year.
Today I've upgraded the primary firewall to the latest snapshot (12 Feb),
and as soon as the firewall booted it became MASTER before pfsync bulk
transfer completed.
Mar 7 15:42:04 echidna /bsd: carp: pfsync0 demoted group carp by 1 to
133 (pfsync bulk start)
Mar 7 15:42:04 echidna /bsd: carp: pfsync0 demoted group pfsync by 1 to
1 (pfsync bulk start)
Mar 7 15:42:04 echidna /bsd: carp: pfsync0 demoted group carp by -1 to
128 (pfsyncdev)
Mar 7 15:42:04 echidna /bsd: carp: pfsync0 demoted group pfsync by -1
to 0 (pfsyncdev)
At this point carp group is also automatically demoted to 0-zero and it
takes over as MASTER.
I manually did ifconfig -g carp carpdemote to force it to SLAVE
in order for pfsync bulk transfer to complete and don't loose active
connections.
Mar 7 15:46:11 echidna /bsd: carp: pfsync0 demoted group carp by -1 to
0 (pfsync bulk done)
Mar 7 15:46:11 echidna /bsd: carp: pfsync0 demoted group pfsync by -1
to 0 (pfsync bulk done)
Secondary firewall is running 5.0 GENERIC#96 i386 from 21 Nov 2011.
Can it be a mis-communication between the 2 firewalls due different
versions?
regards,
Giannis
