James Carlson wrote: > Bruno Bonfils writes: >> I'm a bit surprise there is not VRRP daemon for Solaris (afaik), >> that's why I thinking about write one for our favorite OS. Though, >> my C skills are not very high, and I prefer to work with few others >> people on this project, that's why I ask here. > > VRRP and HSRP are covered by essential patents owned by Cisco and IBM. > I think such a project, hosted by opensolaris.org, would be fairly > risky without a very careful review of the IPR situation. > > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_search.cgi?option=rfc_search&rfc_search=2338 > > Cisco, in particular, has said that it doesn't see value in pursuing > VRRP over its proprietary HSRP, and that patents might be a way to > manage that situation: > > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO > > Given all that, a reluctant -1 from me, at least until someone can > secure whatever licenses may be necessary. > > Also, a -1000 on interoperability. :-/ >
What about using CARP from OpenBSD instead? peter _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
