tech-net: Re: Changing the PHY status reporting

Subject: Re: Changing the PHY status reporting
To: None <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: None <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/19/2006 12:16:20

In message <20060219195006.GC749@beta.martani.n2.repy.czf>,
Pavel Cahyna writes:
>
>Why not make /etc/protocols _the_ config file which chooses the
>protocol?

Any high-quality, robust implmentation of VRRP, or CARP, or other
replacement protocol, will be completely in-kernel.  Are you proposing
the kernel start parsing /etc/protocols?