2008/10/23 Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Right. I am wondering if we need an additional mechanism though - > starting the IP up in "passive" mode (ie, one which won't send rejects > but discards all in-bound traffic silently), and then only activate it > after the service has become operational.
Good point. I can imaging several usage of this feature ;) How about implement this with iptable for linux ? > Unless they do happen to send a message in that brief intervaland get a > reject, I think. The client still hangs in this case, if I don't get you wrong. > You have to specify the refid manually (though the GUI could of course > auto-deduce this), but the parameter name you'd get would still be > "ip". > > My thinking was that we should augment the metadata with a "Hey, and I > very likely need to inherit an IP address", and then the (G)UI would say > "Please add an IP address dependency", and default to using refid to > inherit that - not a bug of any sort in the current code, but might be a > worthwhile addition. I'll discuss with Yan about this. :) > > Regards, > Lars > > -- > Teamlead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) > "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________________ > Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev > Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/ >
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