On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:11AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i think CARPing machines when they're in different public IP blocks > won't work, i.e. x.y.z.w/29 and a.b.c.d/29 cannot have a single > address CARPed across blocks. do tell if i'm wrong on this one since > this would work nicely for the situation i've described.
With enough abuse - some l2tp implementation, or something - CARP can probably be made to do this. However, it would not change the routing tables of any upstream hosts, and thus not be very useful. Joachim