On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > [snip] >>>> "Failover" is the event where a one member takes over some load from >>>> some other member. In a hot standby cluster, this hapens when a >>>> standby memeber becomes active due to a failure of the former active >>>> member, or because of an administrator command. In a load sharing >>>> cluster this usually happens because of a failure of one of the >>>> members, but certain load-balancing technologies may allow a >>>> particular load (an SA) to move from one member to another to even >>>> out the load, even without any failures. >>> >>> The parenthetical "an SA" implies that SAs are never shared between >>> members. I suggest that the initial definition of "cluster" mention >>> whether we expect IKE and IPsec SAs to be shared between members. >> >> That is not part of terminology. It's mentioned in section 3. How about I >> change the parenthetical remark to "such as all the flows associated with a >> particular SA" ? > > OK, with a nit: "such as all the flows associated with a particular IKE > SA". >
I was thinking of an IPsec SA. But it's just an example (or a "such as") anyway. _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
