Backup VRRP router passive ARP learning (was RE: DISCUSS and COMMENT: draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-spec )

"Stephen Nadas" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:52:46 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.vrrp
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One other issue for VRRP list discussion.  BTW, IMHO, seems like a good
idea to at least mention possibility in spec.

Steve  

[Snipped]

> 
> 2. Another feature that at least one vendor implements is 
> so-called Backup VRRP router passive ARP learning.  This is 
> very useful, because otherwise when you switch from active to 
> backup, the backup doesn't know ARP bindings for IP addresses 
> and this increases the time needed to converge.  (The same 
> feature should apply to ND I think) This would seem to be 
> something that could be worth adding or at least discussing 
> in the spec.
> 
> 
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