>> Just out of curiosity, whats the Intellectual Property status of vrrp6?
>> Is vrrp6 (or even vrrpv2) committable to the NetBSD tree?
>    I believe cisco holds patents on the concept behind using a
>virtual mac address shared between multiple systems to provide a
>single service.  Don't quote me on the exact language or consequences,
>but I believe the reasonably binary, correct statement is "yes, there
>are some intellectual property issues behind vrrp".

	VRRP6:
	http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec.txt

	VRRP4:
	http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/NAT-VRRP-IBM
	http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO
	http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2.txt

itojun