From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 02:35:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EE516A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 02:35:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5792D43D2D for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 02:35:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO 172.16.0.1) (mikej@69.193.222.195 with login) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2005 02:35:29 -0000 Received: from 172.16.0.199 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej) by wettoast.dyndns.org with HTTP; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:35:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1860.172.16.0.199.1112754924.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <6c90f549a55284d8a5f0abf0ac5bc329@omniti.com> References: <425196F0.4020309@x-trader.de> <200504042143.09216.max@love2party.net> <55441.80.203.112.249.1112648751.squirrel@webmail.stabbursmoen.no> <6c90f549a55284d8a5f0abf0ac5bc329@omniti.com> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:35:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Theo Schlossnagle" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: eivind@stabbursmoen.no Subject: Re: FreeVRRPd project status X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:35:31 -0000 On Tue, April 5, 2005 10:23 pm, Theo Schlossnagle said: > On Apr 4, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Eivind Hestnes wrote: > >> If you are looking for a Open Source failover solution, CARP is >> probably the best choice as it stands today. >> >> If you need assistance with the configuration, please reply to the >> list, and I will try to respond. > > While it requires a serious paradigm shift, Wackamole > (http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/) provides N:M IP redundancy on *BSD > + linux/windows/solaris. > > > Down sides: not quite as transparent, no MAC stealing, but uses grat. > ARPing to announce failures. And its unmaintanied and does not compile on FreeBSD 5.x.