FreeVRRPd project status

[Petri Helenius]

Claudio Jeker wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:14:52PM +0200, Lars Erik Gullerud wrote:
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>>On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
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>>>Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:
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>>>>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.
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>>>CARP comes from OpenBSD, not NetBSD, and is already in FreeBSD.
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>>...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.
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>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.
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Did this recently change since looking at /etc/protocols it does not 
seem to be the case for most of them anyway?

Pete