FreeVRRPd project status

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik at nolink.net> writes:

Lars> My point is that this very unwise decision to reuse the VRRP
Lars> protocol number, makes CARP mostly undeployable for ISP
Lars> datacenter environments, and hence there is an obvious need for
Lars> a working VRRP implementation, it doesn't help that CARP is now
Lars> available in FreeBSD, because it is not a viable alternative in
Lars> a lot of scenarios.

I think the origional point was that you'd need to pay Cisco a patent
licence to use VRRP... which was why people stopped working on it.

Dave.

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