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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:25:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Link-level protocol
Message-ID:  <199703092355.KAA01299@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199703071310.SAA03887@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at "Mar 7, 97 06:10:19 pm"

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Serge A. Babkin stands accused of saying:
> 
> Suppose, you want to create a cluster of FreeBSD computers. You
> assign an IP address to the package and make it the alias on
> the machine on which the package runs. Then when the package
> gets moved to another machine the alias must be moved to
> this new machine. But then you need to send a broadcast
> ARP REPLY packet to inform all other hosts about this address change.
> There may be other usages too.
> 
> My implementation is very simple, it imlements only bind()
> ans sendto(). The BPF can be used instead of receive().

Hmm, it would also be nice if libpcap opened the bpf device read/write
rather than read-only.  Then you could use pcap for your receiving.

Still, I like the idea.

> -SB

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