[Linux-ha-dev] Removal of ppp-udp option from heartbeat

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2001-03-08T14:37:31,
   David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk> said:

> The hitherto-called "linux-ha" is being expanded to non-Linux systems
> (think "open-ha" conceptually). 

We of course welcome ports from and to other operating systems, as well as
discussing ideas.

> Should one peculiar bug in one peculiar OS (Linux) be sufficient to
> warrant the removal of a potentially useful feature that might benefit
> other, less buggy, OSes?
> 
> There may be other good reasons for its entire removal: fair enough.
> But "one bad OS-apple don't spoil the whole OS-bunch".

There were other good reasons to remove the PPP code from heartbeat. It was
way too complicated a hammer for the problem at hand.

That it didn't work any longer was just the final touch ;-)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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