Hello Paul, Did you adjust advskew value on the machine you want to be Backup ?
For example: Primary/Master # cat hostname.carp0 vhid 1 cardev em0 pass THEPASSWORD inet 10.20.30.40 255.255.255.0 Slave/Backup # cat hostname.carp0 vhid 1 cardev em0 advskew 100 pass THEPASSWORD inet 10.20.30.40 255.255.255.0 I think could be it Regards, 2016-10-10 20:30 GMT-03:00 Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org>: > I'm setting up a second router that's going to sit next to an existing > one and become a redundant failover system. The current one is in > production, and I've been converting some of the existing LAN subnets on it > to use carp interfaces and making them primary and the new box > secondary. I also set up a carp interface on the WAN side and made the > new box primary for testing as that didn't exist before. That all > worked fine when I set it up by hand, but when I rebooted the new box, > the old box stayed primary for everything including the WAN interface, > which I tracked down to the carp demote counter, which ended up at 2 on > the new box after the reboot: > > bash-4.3# ifconfig -g carp > carp: carp demote count 2 > > After I manually decreased the demote counter by 2 back to 0 the WAN > interface master switched back to the new box. > > I'm not sure what's doing that at boot? I am running ospfd on the box, > but I don't have any demote statements in my configuration. I'm also > running npppd, but I don't see anything about that and carp demotion. > What else might be setting carp demotion values? > > Thanks...
