Re: carp and dead daemon

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hello
>
> CARP is nice for load ballancing firewalls, but for servers, there is a
> small concern: if a daemon dies, the machine still answers ARP on the
> shared address, but it will refuse service requests.
>
> Is there an efficient way to automatically shutdown carp interfaces when
> a daemon dies or a TCP port quits the LISTEN state? I mean without
> polling the service. It seems kqueue can give the info, but is there a
> tool for using it?
>


Have you considered using something like pen (pkgsrc /net/pen) for
your services instead?