[Linux-ha-dev] Re: IPaddr on *BSD

[Horms]

Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.de> wrote:
> On 2006-08-10T14:27:20, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>> Though I'd suspect that majority of HB based clusters run on
>> Linux, I didn't find IPaddr2 very popular (at least judging by
>> the lists).
> 
> Most of them probably don't even know about it. Which adds quite nicely
> to the point I was making: On Linux, we should use IPaddr2 by default,
> or at least the methods used therein, instead of the ifconfig mess,
> which is positively ancient and requires us to jump through hoops (and
> isn't very robust).

Yes, I agree. I think that many people simply don't use it because
its not the default. I bet if it was very few of them would complain.
And a lot of nice things would suddenlty just work.

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