More on frankenrouter (the Netscaler reboot as OpenBSD)

Well, I had to shelf this project for a while, but back in full force, today.

Today's problem took me most of the day to figure out.  This is yet another one of the "both CARP servers are masters," issues that seem to plague CARP newbies.

If you're configuring from /etc/hostname.carp0, and you like to bust your ifconfig statements into multiple lines, you may find that you need to put all the little CARP things ahead of the plumbing of the actual IP address.  To wit, this config just wasn't working for me:

inet 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255
-inet6
carpdev em2
vhid 1
pass gandalf

However, this one works fine:


-inet6
carpdev em2
vhid 1
pass gandalf
inet 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255