Feature requests

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Tue May 17 21:57:26 CEST 2011



--On 17 May 2011 22:36:40 +0300 Ziyad Basheer <ziyadbasheer213 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I am curious, what is the deal breaker about VRRP requirement of having
> participating interfaces besides that it's two less addresses from your
> DHCP pool?

We allocate /29s to the (thousands of) networks in question. 1 for
broadcast, 1 for network and 1 for the router is bad enough
(37.5% overhead). Losing another 2 is ridiculous, as "overhead"
IPs would exceed utilisable IPs.

-- 
Alex Bligh



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