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Re: [FW1] NOKIA IP440 and HA
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:31:48AM -0800, Larry Pingree wrote:
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: 1> The Nokia VRRP works by sending broadcasts out of the interfaces that
: have the VRRP enabled on them, the broadcast domain is used as the
: "heartbeat" rather than having a dedicated link between the boxes.
Actually, they are not broadcasts, and we're all glad they aren't. :-)
They're multicasts.... If they were broadcasts, everything on the
segments directly connected to the IP's would have to process
each and every hello packet to the tune of N per second, in the case
of N units...
With multicasts, a machine can elect to "not hear" the traffic.
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