VRRP advice

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 02:50, L. Gabriel Somlo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to add VRRP capability to my embedded box, and I'm looking for
> experiences and advice on how to accomplish that:

This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Router_Redundancy_Protocol

Why did they need a new protocol for this, I wonder...

> The two choices I found so far are
> 
> 	- vrrpd from sourceforge, which seems compact and lightweight
> 	  enough, but hasn't been updated since 2002;
> 
> 	- keepalived, actively maintained, but even when I leave out
> 	  all sorts of extraneous features, it still pulls in a ton of
> 	  libraries I'm not sure are absolutely necessary for just
> 	  plain old VRRP.
> 
> Does anyone else implement VRRP on a busybox-based system, and, if so,
> what software do they use?

I just learned from you that there is the beast called VRRP...
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vda