On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 19:20 +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Joao Ferreira > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> 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?
well.... my dab... it's not really the kernel.... the kernell supports it just fine... the problem is that our own software would behave incorrectly in other un-related areas if we were to use IP-aliasing... > > > 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 I'll leave this for Nuno to answer... "he is the patching guy" cheers 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
