On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 17:32 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > What's the point on using CARP to send advertisements over a dedicated > link? The dedicated link is typically a cross-over cable (i.e. used > for pfsync) and hence, in case of a switch port failure (or cable > failure), CARP won't be able to see this.
That's true, of course. Then I don't see a chance to make CARP behave under heavy load, cause it can always be misinterpreted as a link failure by CARP. I'll try prioritizing carp ads with altq and see how that goes.