On 30/03/07, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Miller wrote: > > Something being in the CGL specification is to me exactly a great > reason NOT to add it. That specification is so full of garbage it's > unbelievable. > > Thanks, you've given me one more reason not to even remotely consider > adding this feature. > Agreed, CGL is a vendor driven group that has always wanted to replicate proprietary misfeatures onto Linux. There is a real requirement to provide high availability but there should be no requirement to implement the solution in the same crap way as legacy Unix.
OK, let's put aside CGL and legacy Unices. Still, I don't see how the case I mentioned can easily be handled. (The case being - effective clean up of all affected client TCP connections, following failover of the server IP address from active to passive node in a highly available cluster). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
