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Thu, 09 Nov 2006

New version of the CARP module has been released.


I'm an author of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) module for Linux kernel 2.6.
CARP is an improved version of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) standard. The latest protocol to help provide high availability and network redundancy, it was developed because router giant Cisco Systems believes that its Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) patent covers some of the same technical areas as VRRP.

Newsforge article about CARP.
Linux kernel CARP is based on OpenBSD CARP protocol but is not compatible with it, since OpenBSD implementation does not contain protection against repeated message sending attack.

New release includes compilation fixes for the latest kernels.

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