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OpenBSD's Common Address Redundancy Protocol

Posted by timothy on from the you-know-my-name-look-up-the-number dept.

Jessie writes "OpenBSD just gained high availability functionality in the form of a new protocol named CARP, the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. This feature was a long time in the coming due to Cisco's patent on VRRP, requiring the development of something completely new and more secure. This article on KernelTrap offers details on OpenBSD's impressive new protocol, from how it works to how it got its name."

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  1. Please RFC this by geirt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I understand that Theo and friends are pissed off by the IETF, but I really hope that they write an RFC for carp, so that we can have a compatible version for other OSes. Are there any detailed descriptions of CARP on the net yet ?

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    1. Re:Please RFC this by gladbach · · Score: 4, Insightful

      absolutely. Get this into freebsd and linux, and we'd have a true winner on our hands. Yet another killer feature that would allow bsd and linux to continue to take over the enterprise

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