(Sorry if this is a dupe, not sure if you had to be a subscriber to send 
to the list)

Hello all,

I am a new to OpenBSD but not *nix in general...

I have two systems running OpenBSD 4.2.  It has 9 carp interfaces, and 
has been running fine for months.  All of a sudden, both systems are in 
BACKUP state.

I halted one of the systems then on the remaining system rebooted, shut 
down and restarted, run "ifconfig carp1 state master", changed the 
sysctls, removed the hostname files, rebooted, then replaced the 
hostname files, fiddled with the advskew and lots of other things.

Even with no other system running, carp will not go into MASTER state, 
period, no errors,  no logs.

I tried setting net.inet.carp.log=1 and 2 and 1000, I see no logs 
anywhere in /var/log.

Anything else I can look at?

William