On Thursday 27 July 2006 01:28, Nick Barkas wrote: > There is a feature from OpenBSD's carp implementation that allows one to > specify which device a carp interface will use, similar to how vlan > devices are associated to a physical interface with the vlandev option > to ifconfig. The change to support this carpdev option looks like it was > added about a year and a half ago to OpenBSD, but it has not been merged > into FreeBSD yet. I would like to have support for this on my routers, > and I am interested in trying to port these changes over to FreeBSD. > > I have two questions, however. First, is it desired by others that > FreeBSD's carp attempt to follow the development of OpenBSD's > implementation? In looking at cvs commit logs in > sys/netinet/ip_carp.[ch], I have seen that there have been only a few > instances where OpenBSD changes have been merged into FreeBSD's carp > sources. Second, would it be more appropriate for me to attempt to merge > all of OpenBSD's changes to the carp device to FreeBSD, or only those > specific to supporting the carpdev functionality that I want? > > If I should send this to -net or elsewhere instead, please let me know > and I'll do that :)
I think you should talk to Gleb Smirnoff (glebius@) who did the final import of carp and is taking care of it since. IIRC he had different plans for it, but I am not sure what they were and if he got a chance to move forward. -- /"\ 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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