On 2008-04-10, Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Assuming this is really a problem, could CARP use interface link state
> to speed up fail-over?  E.g., if the common setup is two routers with
> a direct Ethernet cable for pfsync and the common failure scenario is
> power failure (or at least something that brings down the pfsync
> device interface), when one router fails, the other could detect the
> link state change and then try to more aggressively contact the master
> before timing out and taking over.

Problem is, a carp interface is not interested in the state of the
syncdev, it is interested in the state of its own carpdev (since
multiple carp interfaces on a machine are independent). And carpdev
usually faces a switch, so it stays up.

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