FreeVRRPd project status

[Claudio Jeker]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:14:52PM +0200, Lars Erik Gullerud wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
> >Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:
> >>It's dead, I think:  Cisco's lawyers started making predatory noises
> >>about their "intellectual property".  Some people from NetBSD are
> >>working on a replacement called CARP, which you might want to check
> >>out-- it seems that FreeBSD will be picking up support for this soon,
> >>as well.
> >
> >CARP comes from OpenBSD, not NetBSD, and is already in FreeBSD.
> 
> ...and can't safely be deployed in a lot of datacenter scenarios where 
> the providers gear is running VRRP, since the OpenBSD-folks didn't bother 
> to read up on how the process of obtaining a protocol number works, and 
> hence used the one assigned to VRRP after a half-baked attempt at getting 
> one themselves. Hence making CARP pretty much useless for ISPs, no matter 
> how good it may or may not be otherwise.
> 

This is not true. First of all the "OpenBSD-folks" asked IANA for protocol
numbers for CARP and pfsync but IANA denied it. The reason was that CARP
was not developped through an official standards organization.

-- 
:wq Claudio