[171198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Tue Apr 22 06:32:17 2014
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:31:33 +0200
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5356279F.8020405@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> [2014-04-22 10:29]:
> ... turns 20 today.
>
> This is the patent which covers hsrp, vrrp, many applications of carp and
> some other vendor-specific standby protocols.
it does NOT cover carp, not at all. carp was carefully designed to
specifically avoid that.
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