Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:25:55 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Link-level protocol Message-ID: <199703092355.KAA01299@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199703071310.SAA03887@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at "Mar 7, 97 06:10:19 pm"
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Serge A. Babkin stands accused of saying: > > Suppose, you want to create a cluster of FreeBSD computers. You > assign an IP address to the package and make it the alias on > the machine on which the package runs. Then when the package > gets moved to another machine the alias must be moved to > this new machine. But then you need to send a broadcast > ARP REPLY packet to inform all other hosts about this address change. > There may be other usages too. > > My implementation is very simple, it imlements only bind() > ans sendto(). The BPF can be used instead of receive(). Hmm, it would also be nice if libpcap opened the bpf device read/write rather than read-only. Then you could use pcap for your receiving. Still, I like the idea. > -SB -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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