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    CARP "Master" in All Nodes

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved HA/CARP/VIPs
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      brunoroza
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      Good night and thank you!
      I am assembling a LAB that I intend to apply in my environment, and I am assembling it as follows

      2 PfSense in HA Config
      LAN Interface with VLAN 14, 16, 18 in mode trunk
      1 VIP Carp per VLAN

      My problem is VIP-IP it is master on the 2 servers.

      VLAN 14 CARP-VIP - 192.168.14.1
      VLAN 16 CARP-VIP - 192.168.16.1
      VLAN 18 CARP-VIP - 192.168.18.1

      Master
      Interface Vlan 14
      192.168.14.2/23
      Interface Vlan 16
      192.168.16.2/23
      Interface Vlan 18
      192.168.18.2/23

      Slave
      interface Vlan 14
      192.168.14.3/23
      interface Vlan 16
      192.168.16.3/23
      interface Vlan 18
      192.168.18.3/23

      HA Interfaces
      Master - 10.10.10.1
      Slave - 10.10.10.2

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        viragomann @brunoroza
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        @brunoroza
        If both nodes are master the interfaces probably cannot communicate together with the CARP (VRRP) protocol.

        So how are the nodes connected? If they are connected to a switch ensure its ports are well configured for the VLANs and that it passes CARP packets.

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          brunoroza
          last edited by

          @viragomann tks for reply
          My firewall has the following interfaces
          1 - WAN connected to the router
          1 - HA (cross connection)
          1 - switch interface vlan 14,16,18

          CARP portal is running on the interface that is with VLANS 14,16,18

          pinging individually the IPS of the interfaces is working correctly, only the ips of the CARP that are active in the 2 firewalls and it doesn't work

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            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate @brunoroza
            last edited by Derelict

            @brunoroza If that is really the case then your switch is likely not properly passing the CARP advertisements. They are multicast to 224.0.0.18.

            20:17:32.490656 IP 172.25.228.18 > 224.0.0.18: CARPv2-advertise 36: vhid=228 advbase=1 advskew=0 authlen=7 counter=2770184658337638700

            If those are not received by the secondary node, it will also become MASTER and begin advertising its CARP VIP.

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