Load balancer failover

[Comradin]

Hello

i have tried searching for this problem but i can't find an awnser to it.

i have 2 pfsense boxes with 3 interfaces, wan , lan and sync

i have set the carp options on the master and filled out everything except for the peer box
on the slave i just have the sync button enabled.

When i wanted to add a carp address for the WAN interface i tried 3 times to add it,
It did add it or so it seemed i clicked apply, it did (still there), but then when i refreshed after a while it was gone.
On the forth time i did it, it somehow sayed in place and both machines had the VIP

i added the loadbalancer rule, it should forward the http request on the carp address to a http pool
same story with the virtual ip, i added it but it disapears. But after sevral tries it appears on both machines.
When the rule is finally added the load balancing works.

But when i stop the master pfsense the other pfsense doesn't take over.

sorry i'm a complete noob on this, and i do appologies if this is covered in another topic but i didn't find it.

thanks in advance

[dotdash]

Have you looked at this?
http://www.pfsense.org/mirror.php?section=tutorials/carp/carp-cluster-new.htm

You'll notice that on the secondary node, you only check 'sync enabled' and select the interface.
(Ignore the preemption setting, it's on by default now)