Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:30:00 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spurious error from i[pf]_carp Message-ID: <200712142030.14728.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <4762AC1E.3030101@FreeBSD.org> References: <47628E11.7030803@tomjudge.com> <4762AC1E.3030101@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 14 December 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Tom Judge wrote: > > I guess that there will be more than one VRRP implementation that > > does not generate packets with a header the same size as the carp > > header. > > > > I will look into generating a patch for this over the weekend, > > however any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated before I start > > working on it. > > Sounds fine to me, thanks for doing this. Alternatively you could change IPPROTO_CARP in netinet/in.h to another unused protocol number. This is really the preferred way of dealing with mixed CARP and VRRP environments as the CARP packets might in turn irritate the VRRP routers, too. > It is regrettable that CARP had to come into existence in the first > place because of the VRRP intellectual property situation, and I guess > this is one of the turds which end up floating in everyone's midst as a > result, if you'll pardon the analogy. /* no comment */ -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHYtnGXyyEoT62BG0RAidQAJ9b7VbhCzJ0GTWoktjhZ8FmyCdYDQCeIiOW 33p9i+/9K7xqo2yffM8Hr2E= =xKfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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