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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2000 01:19:53 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        bright@wintelcom.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy
Message-ID:  <E12EMYL-000Bzo-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000128120410.G7157@fw.wintelcom.net>
References:  <20000128045440.F7157@fw.wintelcom.net> <3891B307.620A684F@rci.net> <3891B307.620A684F@rci.net>

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Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> wrote:
>
>Once you tell an application to bind to a particular IP address
>I'm pretty sure most don't have an option to bind another listen
>socket.
>
>The customer can't fail over properly because even when the alias
>for the box that dies comes up, thier daemon won't get requests on
>the added IP.

What would be cool is if FreeBSD could do VRRP. This is usually used
for providing a default route handled by two physical boxen, but if
you turn it around and provide a route to a service IP address that
may be handled by two boxen that deal with fail-over using VRRP then
this solves the problem discussed in this thread.

I'd be interested to know of a free implementation of VRRP for the BSD
network stack.

Tony.
-- 
dot it thus


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