Re: IPv6 Support

On 05/11/2009 09:16, Angelo H=F6ngens wrote:
> On 5-11-2009 10:12, Mark Blackman wrote:
>> On 05/11/2009 08:14, Angelo H=F6ngens wrote:
>>> On 4-11-2009 23:06, Michael Stegeman wrote:
>>>> I'm new to this list and have read through the archives regarding this
>>>> topic, but I'm wondering what would be involved in adding IPv6 support
>>>> to wackamole?  I'm willing to do the work myself (or with help, if any=
one
>>>> is willing), but I'd like to get a feel for how much work this would e=
ntail.
>>> I posted a question about ipv6 support on this list as well quite a
>>> while back, but never got a reply. I think this list is quite dead..
>>> (even though I have hope and am still subscribed.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's kind of dead. I think wackamole is a good idea but incompletely
>> implemented and insufficently reviewed and the original authors seem
>> fairly uninterested in further development. I think you're better off
>> looking at things like CARP, pfsense and the Linux Virtual Server
>> project to accomplish the goals that wackamole appears to be aiming at.
>
>
> I, for one, was really looking to wackamole to solve my HA requirements
> (and it was described in a book about scalable internet architectures as
> well).
>
> But for the reasons above, I chose CARP on FreeBSD (to HA my Squid
> machines).

I had briefly considered trying to re-implement wackamole in Perl, but
balked at the amount of work I forecast for doing cross-platform =

interface manipulation.

- Mark