Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Re: carp question

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM Łukasz Moskała <lm@lukaszmoskala.pl> wrote:

> Run tcpdump on master, ping on backup. If you see pings in tcpdump, then
> master is responding.
> If not, backup is responding to itself.
>
>
Good catch.
The backup is responding to it self. But should it? In the FAQ I find this:
"The master host is the one that currently "holds" the shared IP; it
responds to any traffic or ARP requests directed towards that address."
So the question now is should master respond?

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chs

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