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High availability / CARP not preempting despite "disable preempt" not checked

« on: November 22, 2024, 11:09:02 pm »

We have two firewalls in a CARP failover relationship. Each one has two WANs and three LANs. While troubleshooting something earlier today, we realized that CARP failover wasn't behaving how we thought it was supposed to. We want the behavior to be such that if one of the interfaces fails - any of them - the backup takes over. More specifically, whichever one has the most functional interfaces. I guess a better configuration in the future would be to aim for specifically weighing on the WANs, but for now we want to get preempting working in the first place. 
Right now, when we kill one of the interfaces on the master, the second firewall's corresponding interface takes over as CARP master. However, ONLY that interface takes over. Which is useless - if the WANs fail on firewall 1 but the LANs don't, then the downstream hosts are going to send messages to the firewall which has the CARP master - which in this case is the firewall without WAN reachibility. 
Is it something with these advskews?
Obvious stuff:

• Disable pre-empt is off
• CARP itself is working, just not in a group

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24.7 Production Series / Re: RAM Disk Usage Widget?

« on: August 28, 2024, 06:18:34 pm »

Well, the "Disk Usage" widget is replacing what was a file system information widget, so I think the scope still applies.

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24.7 Production Series / RAM Disk Usage Widget?

« on: August 28, 2024, 05:41:37 pm »

Hey all, we're getting ready to roll out updates to our firewalls to get them up to the latest version. I'm running it at home at the moment. The new gui is kinda nice, but I miss the ability to see the disk usage breakdown. We use RAM disks for our logging. Why isn't that included in the Disk widget? Why can't I edit the settings of the Disk Widget, but I can edit other things? I shouldn't have to either use the shell or use an external monitor like Zabbix to easily get this information.