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    Can you have more than one CARP VIP on the same interface?

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      ace
      last edited by

      we are trying to troubleshoot our CARP issues (e.g. "incorrect hash" on all CARPS except 2) , and came across a post which said:

      • cant have multiple carps assigned to the same subnet

      Is this true?  If so we are in trouble - each of our websites IPs are carped on our WAN interface - so we have about 10 carps for one interface.  The CARPS are used by the HAProxy module to load balance web servers etc.

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        podilarius
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        Not sure what you mean here. I have around 20 CARP address on my WAN. (We have a 64 ip block from which to pull).  Are you trying to put some on that are not in the same subnet as the WAN interface?

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          cmb
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          You have the context of that quote wrong. It was referencing conflicting VHIDs on the same broadcast domain. You can have as many CARP IPs on a subnet as there are VHIDs (and more IPs by adding aliases on top of CARP VIPs). You most likely have a VHID conflict.

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            podilarius
            last edited by

            You cannot have more that 1 or 2 on the same VHID … iirc. I usually just use the last octet as my vhid.

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              cmb
              last edited by

              @podilarius:

              You cannot have more that 1 or 2 on the same VHID … iirc. I usually just use the last octet as my vhid.

              One per VHID per broadcast domain. Using the last octet is a good option most of the time.

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