From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 23 11:42:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866DC37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0NJvRS01701; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:57:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101231957.f0NJvRS01701@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Dejvid Zaninovic" Cc: dan@langille.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Address Overtaking In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:36:31 EST." <001f01c08573$c9b6d670$230aa8c0@newyork.mod> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:57:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What is "IP Address > > overtaking"? > > It is a way to move IP address from one host to another, it is used for > redundancy purposes. If one host goes down the second take over. Commonly referred to as "IP failover". -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message