On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:48:49PM -0800, Jon Simola wrote: > On 3/17/06, Adam D. Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As another experiment I moved advbase on FW2 to '2' for all carps, but the > > > > base is how often. skew is priority. > > No, advbase is integer seconds between advertisements, advskew is > fractional seconds. Taken together, advbase and advskew are an 8.8 bit > fixed point number allowing you to specify advertisment intervals > between 4ms and 255.996s (in theory anyways, setting advskew to 240 or > above is used with preempting as a magic number).
Of course. However, for many, the combination of both advbase and advskew is confusing, and a simplication is "easier" for them to grasp. Especially when trying to explain pre-empting. Ie: the average user won't need advbase, and so explaining advskew as "priority" (when in fact is is not) makes it "easier" to understand. For example, when a user is following: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/ explaining advskew as a "priority" often makes people grasp the concept faster, and then once it "works," they can go, "hmm...oh yes, the man page!" -- adam
