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Paul de Weerd <[email protected]>
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Ever since the introduction of carpdev, physical interfaces no longer
need an IP address configured on the interface. Please consider the
following patch :
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diff -u -r1.232 faq6.html
--- faq6.html 9 Mar 2006 03:17:45 -0000 1.232
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@@ -1549,8 +1549,8 @@
<p>There are, however, situations in which CARP won't help.
CARP's design does require that the members of a group be on the same
-physical subnet, and each interface requires a real, static IP address,
-in addition to a static CARP IP address.
+physical subnet. With the introduction of the carpdev directive, there
+is no more need for IP addresses on the physical interfaces.
Similarly, services that require a constant connection to the server
(such as SSH or IRC) will not be transparently transferred to the other
system--though in this case, CARP can help with minimizing downtime.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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