On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:14:20 +0200, Marcin Jessa wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:01:14 -0700
> jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 18,  6:53am, Marcin Jessa wrote:
>> } 
>> } I was also wondering if anyone is working on kernel implementation of CARP.
>> 
>>      Personally, I think we should do something like VRRP, which is
>> standards compliant, instead of using NIH stuff that will have limited
>> compatibility.
> 
> CARP is free implementation of VRRP which CISCO claims rights to.

How can it be free, then? Patents are granted for ideas, not for
implementations.