Why would you want to ping a virtual anything? It
tells you nothing about any piece of hardware, only
that something is responding to ICMP requests.
--- Paul Keser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's no reason it couldn't. All that is
> necessary is to either change
> the RFC or break it...There are definitely times
> where pinging the VIP would
> be very useful.
>
> -PaulK
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> > Well we're in the realms of academic discussion
> here,
> > but since it's
> > pertinent to fw-1 (sort-of), I'll continue. In an
> MC setup,
> > say you have a
> > primary and a secondary firewall participating in
> VRRP across the same
> > subnet. The primary firewall will effectively
> "own" or handle all ARP
> > requests for the virtual IP, it routes all traffic
> for the
> > VIP, so why can't
> > it respond to pings?
>
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