Hi,
This is somewhat off-topic, but the question has really been nagging me
ever since someone brought it up at NYCBSDCon
(http://www.nycbsdcon.org/index.php?NAV=Speakers) after Jason Dixon's CARP
demo. The demo was really cool, BTW - failover with IPSEC.
The question that was posed was alo
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:26:21 -0400 (EDT)
Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The question that was posed was along the lines of "how does a
> standard ethernet switch handle carp?". The questioner wasn't too
> clear and I'm not sure Jason really knew exactly what the guy was
> asking
Hi,
This question never comes to my mind but here is what I can tell you
on CARP in fail-over mode. The switch is not seeing the same "virtual"
MAC address on two ports, it using only seeing "virtual" MAC address
moving from one port to another when a failover occurs.
CARP is done trough Virtual
* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-29 22:51]:
> The design seems to assume that one MAC address can
> only exist on one port at a time, correct?
no, not at all. There have been so-called multicast MAC addresses from
the stone age on, and that is what carp uses.
besides, switches w
On Sep 29, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Hi,
This is somewhat off-topic, but the question has really been
nagging me ever since someone brought it up at NYCBSDCon (http://
www.nycbsdcon.org/index.php?NAV=Speakers) after Jason Dixon's CARP
demo. The demo was really cool, BTW
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-29 22:51]:
> > The design seems to assume that one MAC address can
> > only exist on one port at a time, correct?
>
> no, not at all. There have been so-called multicast MAC addresse
e 2005 16:40
> To: pf@benzedrine.cx
> Subject: Re: CARP and switches
>
> * Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-29 22:51]:
> > The design seems to assume that one MAC address can only
> exist on one
> > port at a time, correct?
>
> no, not at all. T
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Ryan McBride wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-29 22:51]:
The design seems to assume that one MAC address can
only exist on one port at a time, correct?
no, not at all. There have been s
