Re: Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2006-01-02 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/02/2006 03:31:10 AM, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: Although it's rather hypothetical to have two broken switches at the same time, your assumptions are correct. The backup will not take over. It is rather hypothetical, but perhaps not as much as you might think. I have already, during peri

Re: Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2006-01-02 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 10:52:43PM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 01/01/2006 03:09:03 PM, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 12:28:42AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > >[...] > >> Suppose I have 2 firewalls, one failing over to the > >> other with carp. (net.inet.carp.preempt=1 on

Re: Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2006-01-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/01/2006 03:09:03 PM, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 12:28:42AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: [...] > Suppose I have 2 firewalls, one failing over to the > other with carp. (net.inet.carp.preempt=1 on > both firewalls.) Each has 3 interfaces, internet, > lan, and dmz. The

Re: Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2006-01-01 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 12:28:42AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: [...] > Suppose I have 2 firewalls, one failing over to the > other with carp. (net.inet.carp.preempt=1 on > both firewalls.) Each has 3 interfaces, internet, > lan, and dmz. The dmz has, say, a webserver. > Now to connect the 2 firew

Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2005-12-31 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Sorry, but I just can't seem to get (all of) net.inet.carp.preempt from the man pages. I could set this up and test it, but I know that somebody's done it already and a quick search of the list archives fails me. Suppose I have 2 firewalls, one failing over to the other with carp. (net.inet.