Feature requests

Matthew Walster matthew at walster.org
Wed May 18 10:22:55 CEST 2011


On 18 May 2011 09:02, Tore Anderson <tore.anderson at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
> Also, I believe it is HSRP that's patent encumbered, not VRRP.

HSRP is a proprietary Cisco technology that is (largely) unimplemented
outside of the Cisco world. The IETF standard is VRRP but that *is*
patent encumbered.

See section 4.4 in the IETF Draft "IPR Working Group Guidelines":

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ipr-wg-guidelines-00.txt

I've been led to believe that CARP is not affected by the patent - but
is obviously not particularly inter-operable with routers from the
"big vendors".

Matthew Walster



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