[meanjollies]

I work for an ISP. We use it (CARP and relayd) heavily for HTTP and DNS load balancing in an IPv6-laden environment. Performance is better than that we saw a few years ago under Linux.

[simoncion]

CARP is sweet.

There's an (as far as I can tell) IPv4-only implementation for Linux in ucarp. [0] I use it for failover on my home LAN.

Question: Does OpenBSD CARP support "passwords" longer than 15 or 16 characters?

[0] http://www.pureftpd.org/project/ucarp

[brobinson]

Did you also evaluate FreeBSD? If you did, I'm curious what the pros and cons were that ultimately affected your decision.

[meanjollies]

I did not. I was more familiar with OpenBSD to begin with, and like its slant toward security. Although we do use FreeBSD for a few other servers used as NAS controllers. HAST + ZFS + CARP is great.

[brobinson]

Fair enough, thanks. I was curious since I've heard that FreeBSD generally has the best performance for network-heavy architectures.