[nycbug-talk] ucarp question

[Isaac Levy]

On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> On Wed 2006.09.20 at 10:12 -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
>> On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Jeff Quast wrote:
>>> On 9/20/06, Yarema <yds at coolrat.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But I think the main advantage of ucarp over carp(4) is that you
>>>> can do
>>>> whatever you need in the up/down scripts.  carp(4) does not have
>>>> this type
>>>> of flexibility.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Of course not. Thats what ifstated(8) is for!
>>
>> That's a new-ish OpenBSD thing?  Sounds interesting...
>
> well, if 2 years and 7 months is "new-ish", then yes ;)

Well, in the scope of the big picture, I'll call that new :)

>
>> Hrm.... Niiiiice.
>
> yes it is.

Q for you then:
How do *you* use it, what kinds of problems have you solved with it?
Does the codebase look portable, (I'd assume it's tied to the network  
stack pretty closely)?

Rocket-
.ike