On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:38:44PM +1200, Nigel Roberts wrote: [...] > You can see when the state change happens. The backup host advertises > with advskew of 100, advbase of 2 and promptly decides it's the master > until the next advertisment arrives from the machine that really > should be the master. The backup also issues a CARP IPv6 announcement, > which is strange because we don't have IPv6 configured.
That is not supposed to happen. carp should not send IPv6 advertisements. Mind to share your configuration?