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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.

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