From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 29 12:02:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05383 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05282 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA28725; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:38:27 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9804291438.ZM28723@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:38:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Nguyen HM (Mike)" "RE: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover" (Apr 29, 9:45am) References: <332F90115D96D0119CD500805FEA976B013E85D6@HSCMS01> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: "Nguyen HM (Mike)" , Greg Lehey , Hans Huebner Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 29, 9:45am, Nguyen HM (Mike) (possibly) wrote: > packages running on two machines with a common failover. It can also do > things like hot spare network interfaces (e.g. two or more interfaces > connected to the same network, but only one is active/ifconfig'ed, if it > dies, MC/S will automatically bring up a spare interface; we actually > use this product on several machines just for this purpose). This would run into the current bug on FreeBSD that ARP entries for a deleted interface don't get deleted. It's among the PRs that don't have anyone looking at them (suspended ones): kern/425. -Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message