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From: "Markus Oestreicher" <m.oe@x-trader.de>
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Subject: freevrrpd (was: My planned work on networking stack)
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> [...]
> as for vrrp, there is an opensource/RFC-compliant implementation that
> works on FreeBSD.  actually, it was coded specifically for FreeBSD.
> 
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/freebsd-hut
> 
> i have never used this on a large-scale (i've never considered pre-1.0
> software "stable"), but have used it many places for failover inside
> clusters with satisfactory results.

A few months ago I read about problems when using freevrrpd on 
vlan(4) interfaces. I will going to implement a similar solution
this year.

Have these been fixed recently or is this impossible by design?

Markus