On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:48:08PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-06 18:56]:
> > Well, turns out that *I* am the one who is being stupid here. I was
> > fairly uncertain after hitting send, but since nobody objected I thought
> > it might be correct after all.
> >
> > ARP level load balancing, as it's called in the manual, does have the
> > above limitation (obviously). Straight CARP is an IP protocol, though,
> > and crosses routers just fine.
> >
> > Sorry for the misinformation!
>
> you are still confuzzled.
>
> CARP ARP loadbalancing works just fine crossing SWITCHES as well*, as
> well as any other layer 2 device.
>
> CARP, with or without loadbalancing, does not work across ROUTERS (i.
> e. layer 3 devices)
>
> *well, there might be issues with some switches, but in theory it
> should just work.
Well, I had actually understood that - dunno why I wrote the above, but
I was aware of what you said. Then again, misinformation is still
misinformation...
Anyway, thanks for the corrections!
Joachim
