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On 2000-07-11T15:49:07,
??? <conan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I wonder the mechanism of IP takeover.
> How the packets find secondary when primary is dead ?
> I know that secondary takes the IP (which may called VIP) of the primary.
> And what next ?
> Is ARP broadcasted by secondary ? Is it done automatically or done by
> heartbeat ?
Yes. The system sends out an unsolicited ARP reply and the other hosts on the
same ethernet segment update their arp caches.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>
Development HA
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