On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:10:29PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Christophe Prevotaux wrote:
> > > I was wondering why the FreeBSD core team would think
> > > of including the vrrp daemon and loadd to the distribution or let
> > > the author of this commit his source for peer reviewing
> > ...
> > > Maybe it need to be integrated into current and then backported
> > > to stable (has it is already stable so it would be forwardported ?
> > > to current and backported to stable ??:))
> >
> > Disclaimer: I'm not part of the core team (or even a comitter).
> >
> > I briefly looked at the package, and nothing in there seems to depend on
> > kernel mods. Having it be a port should be fine. Aside from that, the
> > thing would benefit from some documentation... :-)
>
> You've touched on my problem with it, that it _doesn't_ rely on kernel
> modifciations. It does some very hackish things with BPF devices and
> clobbering MAC addresses. If someone wants to do this The Right Way,
> some of it definately needs to live in the kernel.
The things using bpf nterfaces could be done by hooking in a netgraph
module.. in fact the ethernet packet filter could be
completely implemented as such..
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