On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jason Lixfeld <jason-lists.pfse...@lixfeld.ca> wrote: > Hi Dimitri, > > It is a CARP address, yes and it does in fact match the mask on the WAN > interface; they are both /28. > > After doing some more digging, I figured it out. It was a VMWare thing. I > had to set the virtual adapter with a security policy exception to allow > promiscuous mode. > > There seems to be another issue though - it seems as though there is another > client out there on the WAN (albeit, on a different VLAN) using a pfSense > box, because I see the same MAC address as what my pfSense box is using for > my CARP MAC Address.
Probably VRRP is what you're seeing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Protocol#History for history on this. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
