From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 11 18:31:48 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA01284 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from red.jnx.com (red.jnx.com [208.197.169.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA01279 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:31:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.jnx.com (chimp.jnx.com [208.197.169.246]) by red.jnx.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA09218; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tli@localhost) by chimp.jnx.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA05015; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:30:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:30:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199612120230.SAA05015@chimp.jnx.com> From: Tony Li To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-reply-to: bradley@dunn.org's message of 12 Dec 96 01:20:52 GMT Subject: Re: HSRP functionality? References: Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, if I were good at drawing network diagrams in ASCII, I would draw a diagram. But I'm not, so I won't. :-) The network has two FreeBSD routers on it and both can get to the outside world. Is there any way I can get the same functionality of cisco's hot standby routing protocol without running passive ospf on the hosts? BTW, you can read about HSRP at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/data/doc/cintrnet/ics/icshsrp.htm Brad, Yes, certainly. HSRP was invented to deal with the problem of Really Stupid Hosts that didn't support router discovery. Since you have the good taste to run FreeBSD ;-), you could simply use router discovery instead. Tony