On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:14:52PM +0200, Lars Erik Gullerud wrote: > 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. >
This is not true. First of all the "OpenBSD-folks" asked IANA for protocol numbers for CARP and pfsync but IANA denied it. The reason was that CARP was not developped through an official standards organization. -- :wq Claudio _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
