[pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Shibashish
Hi, What is the average time for the carp failover to kick in... i.e. how much time does it take for the backup to become master and start serving requests and vice versa? Is the timing parameter configurable? I have both the WAN and LAN gw as carp ip. Version2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Thu Mar 17

Re: [pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Peter van der Leek
What is the average time for the carp failover to kick in... i.e. how much time does it take for the backup to become master and start serving requests and vice versa? Is the timing parameter configurable? I have both the WAN and LAN gw as carp ip. I as a human have never been faster then the

Re: [pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Mike Nichols
I think we're discussing timeouts related to OSI levels 2 or 3. A physical disconnect is of course immediate, but i think other factors should be considered, like watchdog style errors, ping timeouts, and transport layer failures. I hope we can document points of failure and expected delays

Re: [pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Shibashish shi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the average time for the carp failover to kick in... i.e. how much time does it take for the backup to become master and start serving requests and vice versa? Immediate if it's expected (i.e. you reboot the