[171652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu May 8 07:17:33 2014
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 08/05/2014 12:09, Henning Brauer wrote:
> my switches seem to deal with that, wether they have special handling
> for that mac addr range or not i dunno.
I've seen this problem cause downtime on production networks.
fyi, it will probably work fine on hubs, but not on switches.
> again, stress the fact that afair we have gotten zero reports about
> that "issue" for 10 years, it obviously means that either
> 1) a vast majority of switches deal with it just fine
> 2) people know that vhids shouldn't clash and avoid that
https://www.google.com/search?q=vrrp+carp+incompatible
Several of the results refer to openbsd mailing list postings.
Nick
