Your carp interface won't be doing much for you if it doesn't have an
IP address configured.

You should be able to run dhcpd off carp1 without any trouble, though
I can't speak from experience.

-HKS


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Imre Oolberg <imre@auul.pri.ee> wrote:
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> Hallo!
>
> I have been using for some time now carp failover and i am very content with
> it, thank you!
>
> I run some tests and i just wanted to confirm that in order to run dhcpd
> service one has to run it on a physical interface (which has ip address
> configured) like
>
> # dhcpd fxp0
>
> and not on a carp device which in turn uses fxp0 like that, right?
>
> # dhcpd carp1
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Imre
>
> PS I learned from the archives that dhcp v.3 has so to say master and slave
> functionality but this is not an issue yet for me how to sync leases
> database and etc.