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Re: carping about CARP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Nov 30 09:50:52 2012

To: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:47:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: <slrn4kbhdld.g6l.stu@naiad.spacehopper.org> (Stuart Henderson's
 message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:37:46 +0000 (UTC)")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:

> I don't see anything here indicating that it's to do with CARP
> believing things sent over the wire, I suspect the problem would still
> occur if CARP were disabled on the pfSense box. (Do people really
> run CARP in the wild without authentication anyway?)

1) it did not.

2) standard, out of the box pfSense distribution.  Haven't run that
codebase lately myself, and not sufficiently interested this morning
to dig through the code.

Just watch your back, that's all.  :)

-r



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