Re: US patent 5473599

[Henning Brauer <hb-nanog () bsws de>]

* Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> [2014-05-08 07:16]:
> If they take their ball and go home, that's fine. The problem is that they seem to occasionally have their ball 
> brought (by systems administrators) to networks where the network engineers are already running VRRP on routers (for 
> example) and because:
>
>       1.      The systems administrators don't necessarily have in-depth knowledge of what the network is doing.

nothing technology can solve

>       2.      The network administrators don't necessarily get told about every detail of the Systems administrators 
> intentions.

nothing technology can solve

>       3.      There's no knowledge among the two groups that either is using the other protocol (CARP vs. VRRP)

nothing technology can solve

>       4.      There's even less knowledge that the two are going to fight with each other.

that is a lie, they coexist just fine.
even with "conflicting" mac addrs you just get log spam.

> OTOH, if the BSD folk had (or in the future did) fix CARP so that instead of trying to steal VRRP MAC addresses in a 
> conflicting manner, it would either use a non-conflicting MAC prefix (how about one with the locally assigned bit 
> set, such as the VRRP Mac | 0x02000:0000:0000) and make a legitimate attempt at getting CARP into an RFC with a 
> legitimately assigned protocol number, everyone could get along without issue.

awaiting your diff.

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