[TriLUG] [OT] Firewall recomendations

[John Broome]

On 4/24/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> jason wrote:
> > I *think* the openbsd implementation is called CARP?
>
> CARP is OpenBSD's completely unencumbered answer to Cisco's VRRP and HSRP.
>
> More here:
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html
>
>  From that page:
> > CARP is the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Its primary purpose
> > is to allow multiple hosts on the same network segment to share an IP
> > address. CARP is a secure, free alternative to the Virtual Router
> > Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and the Hot Standby Router Protocol
> > (HSRP).

It also has arguably the best obsd song to go with it:
http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35