From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 3 23:53:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A6C37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020404075340.QYBH22231.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 07:53:40 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g347rdj58147; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:53:39 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Sebastien Petit Cc: Scott Ullrich , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HUT Project Message-ID: <20020403235339.D57543@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <2F6DCE1EFAB3BC418B5C324F13934C96016C9521@exchange.corp.cre8.com> <20020402170922.G52193@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020403100144.E148FBADD@sbserv0.intra.selectbourse.net> <20020403214530.A57543@blossom.cjclark.org> <000d01c1dba8$1c0c6e90$020110ac@SPE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000d01c1dba8$1c0c6e90$020110ac@SPE>; from spe@selectbourse.net on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:12:40AM +0200 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:12:40AM +0200, Sebastien Petit wrote: [snip] > with the RFC2338, FreeBSD must respond to ARP query on 10.0.1.1 and > 172.16.2.1 with 00:00:5E:01:01 MAC address and not with the real MAC > addresses of physical interfaces. Then when a switching between SLAVE and > MASTER occures ARP cache doesn't need to be updated anyware. The switch > learn effectivly the MAC address on his port but it updates his ARP table > automaticly when another host become a MASTER because the new MASTER send > VRRP packets every seconds. All looks good so far. > so if you don't use real aliases with RFC2338 MAC addresses, ARP cache of > hosts on the same LAN need to be updated (because SLAVE doesn't have the > same MAC address as the MASTER). This problem is describe in the RFC2338. I still don't understand what you are saying here. I think it is a language and terminology barrier. What is a "real alias?" > Then, I need to write a new node called ng_alias for example and use it for > doing this staff. > > But perhaps I'm wrong with that or with RFC2338. If this is the case, can > you correct me ? > Any comments ? > Sebastien. > -- > spe@selectbourse.net -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message