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From: Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>
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Hi.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:27:52AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> CARP, which will be in 5.4R I believe (and is in 6.0-CURRENT now), is 
> like VRRP, but with more knobs, whistles, and features.  You should look 
> into CARP for this.

I know CARP handles the case, that a host is down, but does it handle 
the case, that a single service on a host is down?

- Oliver

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