Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

>I am much more concerned about something else: CARP hijacks numbers
>allocated by IANA to another protocol, namely VRRP.  I cannot see how
>we can possibly integrate it into NetBSD when this is the case.
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>Thor
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CARP is just a demo for now, so in my mind that's acceptable.  This has 
actually made troubleshooting easier.  For one thing, I don't have to 
mess with tcpdump filters as much to easily identify and read the 
protocol and a few parameters from the wire.  Naturally, these hijacked 
numbers would have to be changed for the real world, if it gets there, 
and even properly assigned by the IANA.

This initial release surely had to be an intentional stab at Cisco, for 
some reason... the developers must have had some hostility in their 
hearts for Cisco at the time of writing CARP.

Thanks for the patent info.  That was a good example... :-)
~Mike.