Hi,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:53:22PM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Florian Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No one seems to have acted on this when it was first posted, but we just
> > discussed this on #linux-ha, and Lars and Dejan were kind enough to
> > offer an explanation:
> >
> > On 2009-07-02 13:38, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I encountered a problem with an ordinary IPaddr2 resource. In the logs I 
> >> see:
> >>
> >> IPaddr2[9651]: ERROR: Could not send gratuitous arps
> >
> > This appears to be the case on any system where libnet (on Debian,
> > libnet1-dev) is not available *at compile time*. The obvious workaround,
> > per Lars' and Dejan's suggestion, is to compile resource-agents on a
> > system with libnet installed.
> >
> > An issue exists on RHEL 5, which does not have libnet available. It is,
> > however, available from the CentOS 5 "extras" repository.
> 
> The build service doesn't make Extras available.
> 
> > Andrew -- assuming you are building packages for RHEL on CentOS, can you
> > make sure you pull libnet into the build environment?
> 
> We really need to ditch the need for libnet ASAP... its gets even less
> support than heartbeat.
> 
> The last activity was:
> 
> tjaden committed patchset 106 of module libnet to the Libnet CVS
> repository, changing 1 files
> posted by tjaden 2355 days ago
> 
> Thats nearly 7 _years_ ago!

OK, but that doesn't make it unusable. I'm all for moving to
something better given that it satisfies our requirements, but
this is not a reason enough.

At any rate, libnet seems to be further developed at
http://github.com/sam-github/libnet.

Thanks,

Dejan

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