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From: Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:01:54 +0100 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: carping about CARP User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:48:48AM -0800, David Conrad wrote: > On Nov 30, 2012, at 5:08 AM, Henning Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > and re IANA, they made it clear they would not give us a proto number > > As they should have. IANA abides by the rules laid down for it by the > IETF/IESG/IAB. The openbsd folks couldn't be bothered to even write up a > draft and chose to squat on a protocol number. > > > no matter what; > > BS. If the openbsd folks followed the rules, they'd have gotten the > number(s) they requested (assuming they were justified). There is no > grand persecution here. There is management of a limited resource. > IETF already decided that VRRP was the way to go. So an alternative implementation would not have been accepted. The result would be a draft that would never be adopted and so it is back to start. Still carp packets can coexist with vrrp packets. They use a different version numbers. Also you need to use a different vhid but the same thing is true if you have 2 groups of vrrp on the same lan. If you configure something like VRRP you should run a quick tcpdump first and check if there are not unexpected packets showing up. This is especially important for any protocol that does a link local multicast or broadcast. This is basic network admin best practice (at least I expect that from a network engineer). > > we didn't have a choice but to ignore that industry-money-driven committee. > > Which 'industry-money-driven committee' would that be? Did you ever read any of the IETF mailing lists and looked at the email addresses of those people pushing the hardest? At least in the ones I'm subscribed to the bias is obvious. -- :wq Claudio ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
