On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:41 +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > > BTW: what does the list think about this "move ucasts to Ethernet > > frames" change we did ? We simply pick up the original UDP payload and > > transmit it with Ethernet frames. On the receivinbg side we pick up the > > frame, extract the payload and everything goes fine. We use libpcap for > > the L2 manipulations. Any comments ? > > what was the motivation for this feature?
IP aliasing limitations. Our kernel does not yet support IP alisaing. It's on the roadmap but we could not wait for it. So basically we had to use and "IP-ignorant" heartbeat.... our heartbeat is totally unaware of IP addresses.... always uses MAC addresses. When we need to perform IP take over we use a diferent approach. joao > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
