On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:12:40AM +0200, Sebastien Petit wrote:
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> 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.
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