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    CARP needed, limited IPs available

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      FretTapper
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      What I need: failover between my two pfsense boxes on 5 virtual IPs …CARP is the answer of course.
      My problem: I have only 5 public IPs that I need CARPED, and thus don't have an IP for the interface.

      Trolling this forum would lead me to believe this would be the proper way to start:
      1.) Set my interface addresses on my two pfsense boxes to something like 10.99.99.1 and 10.99.99.2
      2.) Add 5 CARP VIPs of 10.99.99.3-7.

      ...after this I get confused ...let's say my public IP range is 192.168.99.1-5
      ...it would seem that I need some sort of trickery with either static routing, "other" VIPs, and/or NATs that are different between the two boxes ...

      ...where to go from here?

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        FretTapper
        last edited by

        Oh, and based on the VIP page, I do need (unfortunately) to support the FTP Helper …I bet that screws it up?

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          dotdash
          last edited by

          What you need, of course, is OpenBSD's CARPDEV. Unfortunately, it is still in the rough stages of being ported to FreeBSD. I think your easiest options would be: a) get a /28 instead of a /29 b) Use port-forwarding to consolidate your public services to 3 IPs instead of 5.

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            FretTapper
            last edited by

            Thanks dotdash, in my trolling I ultimately decided you had given the answer to me …I'm upping to /28 ideally ...it's a pain with my ISP ...I actually use a lot of port forwarding to get it down to the 5 ...i could get it to 3 maybe, but that's really pushing it ...but any way, thanks again ...and looking forward to CARPDEV someday.

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