On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Just unwise :-)

> 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.

Looks like someone forked the original code.  Perhaps there is hope.
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