On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
...and can't safely be deployed in a lot of datacenter scenarios where the providers gear is running VRRP, since the OpenBSD-folks didn't bother to read up on how the process of obtaining a protocol number works, and hence used the one assigned to VRRP after a half-baked attempt at getting one themselves. Hence making CARP pretty much useless for ISPs, no matter how good it may or may not be otherwise.
/leg
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