Re: Redundancy - why not do it on Unix?

From: <carson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:02:40 -0500 (EST)

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Campbell <bc@thehub.com.au> writes:

Bruce> Dunno about you, but my routers take at least a minute to notice a new
IP-> ARP mapping, and by then squid has restarted anyway.

Ah, but grasshopper, you have not sent the magic broadcast ICMP echo request
of ARP updating. This ancient secret has been passed down for generations by
the ancient TCP/IP gurus...

:) Of course, your IP stack may be "Differently Implemented" (to be PC about
it), so YMMV.

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