On Friday 14 December 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Tom Judge wrote: > > I guess that there will be more than one VRRP implementation that > > does not generate packets with a header the same size as the carp > > header. > > > > I will look into generating a patch for this over the weekend, > > however any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated before I start > > working on it. > > Sounds fine to me, thanks for doing this.
Alternatively you could change IPPROTO_CARP in netinet/in.h to another unused protocol number. This is really the preferred way of dealing with mixed CARP and VRRP environments as the CARP packets might in turn irritate the VRRP routers, too. > It is regrettable that CARP had to come into existence in the first > place because of the VRRP intellectual property situation, and I guess > this is one of the turds which end up floating in everyone's midst as a > result, if you'll pardon the analogy. /* no comment */ -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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