When I was at Nokia we had a few customer requests for that feature.
The whole point is it does tell you something is there, not necessarily what you think is there but something is responding. For troubleshooting purposes I could see it being useful to be able to ping or traceroute to the VIP.
-PaulK
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rogue Bolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 3:46 PM
> To: Paul Keser; 'McMeekin, Scott'; 'hermit1';
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> Subject: RE: [FW1] Nokia failover
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>
> 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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