On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Joao Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
dare one ask what kind of kernel doesn't support IPs? > 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. did you implement it as a separate comms plugin or some other method? because if its a new comms plugin we'd probably accept it into the tree if you're interested _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
