Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:14:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik@nolink.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeVRRPd project status Message-ID: <20050413171132.B96104@electra.nolink.net> In-Reply-To: <864qeibp0v.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <425196F0.4020309@x-trader.de> <6731347a839d85db456b1c5a33bcf0b5@mac.com> <864qeibp0v.fsf@xps.des.no>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-206236866-1113405292=:96104 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> writes: >> It's dead, I think: Cisco's lawyers started making predatory noises >> about their "intellectual property". Some people from NetBSD are >> working on a replacement called CARP, which you might want to check >> out-- it seems that FreeBSD will be picking up support for this soon, >> as well. > > CARP comes from OpenBSD, not NetBSD, and is already in FreeBSD. =2E..and can't safely be deployed in a lot of datacenter scenarios where=20 the providers gear is running VRRP, since the OpenBSD-folks didn't bother= =20 to read up on how the process of obtaining a protocol number works, and=20 hence used the one assigned to VRRP after a half-baked attempt at getting= =20 one themselves. Hence making CARP pretty much useless for ISPs, no matter= =20 how good it may or may not be otherwise. /leg --0-206236866-1113405292=:96104--
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