Dunno if this is possible... I'm trying to set up an OpenBSD (4.2 snapshot) router as a VRRP neighbor to a Juniper M7i (JunOS version 7.5R2). I've set up the following:
On the M7i Gigabit interface: unit 0 { description "Gigabit Ethernet Backbone"; family inet { mtu 9000; no-redirects; address X.X.X.49/28 { vrrp-group 55 { virtual-address X.X.X.55; priority 10; accept-data; } } } } > show vrrp detail Physical interface: ge-0/0/0, Unit: 0, Address: X.X.X.49/28 Index: 72, SNMP ifIndex: 72, VRRP-Traps: enabled Interface state: up, Group: 55, State: master Priority: 10, Advertisement interval: 1, Authentication type: none Preempt: yes, Accept-data mode: yes, VIP count: 1, VIP: X.X.X.55 Advertisement timer: 0.631s, Master router: X.X.X.49 Virtual router uptime: 00:46:48, Master router uptime: 00:46:39 Virtual MAC: 00:00:5e:00:01:37 Tracking: disabled On the OpenBSD machine (4.2 GENERIC.MP#259): msk0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 9000 lladdr 00:00:5a:72:6f:9f description: Gigabit Ethernet Backbone #1 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active inet X.X.X.50 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast X.X.X.63 inet6 fe80::200:5aff:fe72:6f9f%msk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 carp1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:00:5e:00:01:37 carp: MASTER carpdev msk0 vhid 55 advbase 1 advskew 150 groups: carp inet6 fe80::200:5eff:fe00:137%carp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xe inet X.X.X.55 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast X.X.X.63 CARP preempt is set on the BSD box. They both show up as CARP/VRRP masters no matter how much I play with the VRRP priority or the CARP advskew, and cause duplicate IP probs (same IP, same virtual MAC). I turned on logging for CARP, and am getting this: carp: packet too short 40 on carp1 carp: packet too short 40 on carp1 carp: packet too short 40 on carp1 <etc, etc> Doing a sniff, it looks like the VRRP packet from the Juniper is 10 bytes smaller than the CARP packet on the BSD machine (60 bytes vs 70). Does anyone know if there's a tweakable option to fix this, or if it's even possible to do this at all (is CARP compatible with regular VRRP)?