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Roberto,
My thoughts exactly! It doesn't seem like it should be possible, but
Horms sure knows his stuff. Maybe he can chime in and elaborate on
those details?
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Michael Spiegle
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Roberto Nibali wrote:
>>>> I just just built 2 fresh gentoo boxes for testing active-active.
>>>> I had
>>>
>>> How is active-active possible
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>> it's Horms experimental code called Saru. He explained it at OLS one
>> year you didn't come.
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>> http://www.ultramonkey.org/papers/active_active/active_active.shtml
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> Downloaded and printed, will read this weekend. Although, if Horms
> engineers something it's most likely flying anyway. So I just have to
> understand how he cheated the TCP stack this time :). I see some
> netfilter related stuff in it and I wonder if (from what I've seen)
> his approach works for 2.6.x kernels with proper TCP state tracking,
> TSO and USO? In 2.4.x where netfilter is mostly broken with regard to
> TCP state tracking, such quirks might be possible.
>
> Cheers mate,
> Roberto Nibali, ratz
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