Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:43:17 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik@nolink.net> Cc: Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> Subject: Re: FreeVRRPd project status Message-ID: <16990.36757.26561.974023@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050413212349.P22243@electra.nolink.net> References: <425196F0.4020309@x-trader.de> <6731347a839d85db456b1c5a33bcf0b5@mac.com> <20050413171132.B96104@electra.nolink.net> <20050413181931.GA16696@diehard.n-r-g.com> <20050413212349.P22243@electra.nolink.net>
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>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik@nolink.net> writes: Lars> My point is that this very unwise decision to reuse the VRRP Lars> protocol number, makes CARP mostly undeployable for ISP Lars> datacenter environments, and hence there is an obvious need for Lars> a working VRRP implementation, it doesn't help that CARP is now Lars> available in FreeBSD, because it is not a viable alternative in Lars> a lot of scenarios. I think the origional point was that you'd need to pay Cisco a patent licence to use VRRP... which was why people stopped working on it. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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