Sevan Janiyan writes: > "Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more > correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We designed > CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same problem that > these other protocols are designed for, but without the same technological > basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent document carefully and ensured > that CARP was fundamentally different. We also avoided many of the flaws in > HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent lack of security). And since we are > OpenBSD developers, we designed it to use cryptography."
I don't see a necessary conflict here. Implementing CARP sounds to me like a separate and also-viable project. Is someone volunteering to do that? As for the above text, it's possible that some folks might take the reassurances of the OpenBSD developers that they've read, correctly understood, and completely avoided all of the claims in those patents, but I think a prudent developer wouldn't necessarily take their word for it. They're not going to indemnify you. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
