> I'm a bit confused by your reply. Yes, I kind of see what you mean but > it also seems I failed miserably to write things clearly. By putting > "Official" in quotes, I was trying to point out the stupidity of the bad > corporate decisions that occur far too often. > > There are countless corporate idiots which make the wrong choice because > they like to waive a nonsense marketing banner saying that they are > "Compliant" with some "official" standard, regardless if there is a > standardized, completely free, unincumbered and technically superior > replacement available. Those bad decisions do slow adoption of a free > replacement (CARP) and in general, affect inter operability of systems > because they chose to support some encumbered protocol rather than CARP. > > I can kind of see how saying their decisions are wrong/bad might be > limiting but I don't understand how it would give them more power to do > it again? > > I've got this bad feeling that I'm missing something that should be > totally obvious... please apply the clue stick.
What did you miss? By even using "official" in quotes, and your statement: >> Don't misunderstand me, CARP is an amazingly innovative and extremely >> useful implementation of a redundancy protocol. It's technically better >> than HSRP or any of the versions of VRRP but the problems till stands >> that it is not an "official" protocol, which simply means adoption and >> inter operability will suffer to some degree. What are you doing? You are saying that your prediction is that it WILL suffer in adoption, it WILL suffer in inter operability. Keep at it. You might get what you want. Because what you wrote, it is what you wanted right? The problem is there are a whole lot of people who are willing to discuss the problems their ideas/implimentations face. And it actually does affect the adoption of our stuff. That's because noone from a corporate role would every say such a thing. So go ahead, be honest. Fight the losing fight. The fact is that CARP (+ pfsync + sasync) kicks the crap out of anything that is standardized......
