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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:38:47 -0800, Horms wrote:
>Are there just 5 ARPs or 5 to start this and then more gratuitous
>ARPs at regular intervals. If the gratuitous ARPs only occur at
>fail-over then once the ARP caches on hosts expire there is
>a chance that a failed host - whose kernel is still functional -
>could reply to an ARP request.
When we put this together, I talked to Alan Cox about this. His
opinion was that send 5 ARPs out at 2 seconds apart. If there is
something out there listening and cares, then it will pick it up.
THe way piranha works, as long as the kernel is alive, the backup (or
failed node) will not maintain any interfaces that are Piranha managed.
In other words, it removes any of those IPs/interfaces from its routing
table upon failure recovery.
Mike
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Mike Wangsmo Red Hat, Inc
"I've seen this before in Montana! Its snowing, nobody lick a flag
pole" -- Peggy Hill
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