About CARP Hardware
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Hi,
Sorry. I'm not sure if this question is already asked. Is it okay to make CARP on two boxes with different specs?
Thanks!
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It's possible, and works fine in most cases, with one caveat: If the NICs are different, then state synchronization will not work properly*.
The number of interfaces and assignment order must be identical, but otherwise the hardware can be different.
- States are interface-bound and carry the NIC driver name/instances, such as igb1. If you make laggs (even one-interface laggs) so an interface appears as lagg0 or lagg1 on both, then it can work, but that's not ideal.