Re: Can PF CARP go thru router?

From: Greg Hennessy (me_at_privacy.org)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:00:18 +0000

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:58:32 +0000 (UTC), per@hedeland.org (Per Hedeland)
wrote:

>>All the CARP data is placed inside an Ethernet frame with a protocol
>>number of 112 (by default). Layer two switches should be able to pass
>>the frames, but layer three routers probably will not.
>>
>>
>>The designers of CARP hope to eventually get over this limitation,
>>but it has not occurred yet.
>
>Hm, what's the point of doing that?

How about load balancing services which are not on a locally attached
network.

greg 

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