Title: CARP - battle of the firewalls
Hi again
We're gradually getting closer to our desired setup: 2 pfSense boxes with CARP failover, each with multiple LAN interfaces and load-balanced dual WANs. This is obviously quite a complex setup, and getting it all working at once seems elusive -
model and vendor?
Holger
-Original Message-
From: Alastair Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:44 PM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: [pfSense Support] CARP - battle of the firewalls
Hi again
We're gradually getting closer to our desired setup: 2 pfSense
Alastair Stevens wrote:
Hi again
We're gradually getting closer to our desired setup: 2 pfSense boxes
with CARP failover, each with multiple LAN interfaces and
load-balanced dual WANs. This is obviously quite a complex setup, and
getting it all working at once seems elusive - but we're almo
Spanning tree port lockout will nail you pretty hard with CARP. Make
sure your switch ports (if managed switches) are in port fast. Also,
make sure that you haven't inadvertantly turned on port security and
limited the port to a single MAC (each CARP VHID uses a MAC along with
the physical inter
Bill Marquette wrote:
Spanning tree port lockout will nail you pretty hard with CARP. Make
sure your switch ports (if managed switches) are in port fast. Also,
make sure that you haven't inadvertantly turned on port security and
limited the port to a single MAC (each CARP VHID uses a MAC along
On 7/14/06, Royce Mitchell III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ever see any of the packets in question ), would it be advisable to give
each carp interface a dedicated switch, or is it safe for example, to
hook both LAN interfaces to the aforementioned D-Link, which is a
24-port gigabit unmanaged swit
Bill Marquette wrote:
On 7/14/06, Royce Mitchell III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ever see any of the packets in question ), would it be advisable to give
each carp interface a dedicated switch, or is it safe for example, to
hook both LAN interfaces to the aforementioned D-Link, which is a
24-po
Title: RE: [pfSense Support] CARP - battle of the firewalls
Hi - well this sounds interesting, though not very encouraging! The whole thing is set up on a test bench at the moment, and as it happens, we are using *different* types of switches on different interfaces. The LANs are using 24
On 7/17/06, Alastair Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi - well this sounds interesting, though not very encouraging! The whole
thing is set up on a test bench at the moment, and as it happens, we are
using *different* types of switches on different interfaces. The LANs are
using 24-port Net
