Re: Highly Available OSPF Router.

[Dave Katz <[e-mail]>]

I suspect a number of folks are working on things like this.

However, the way you describe it says that it in fact is not subject to
standardization, since it does what it does without the neighbors
realizing (nothing outside the "black box.")  Therefore it is only an
implementation trick, not something to be standardized.

--Dave

On Sunday, Feb 15, 2004, at 23:03 US/Pacific, [e-mail]
wrote:

> Has anyone implemented an OSPF HA where two or more OSPF routers
> appear as one OSPF router to the OSPF neighbors. One of the routers
> (the Master) talks to the external world (OSPF neighbors) and the
> others (the Backups) keep all the dynamic OSPF state (neighbors,
> database etc) in sync with the Master. When the Master dies, one of
> the backup router takes over immediately without the neighbors
> realizing any change in the network ?
>
> If anyone has implemented any such thing, I would like to hear about
> how they do it. I would also like to know if the WG would be interested
> in standardizing such a mechanism ? At least I think that it will be
> a useful thing !!
>
> Regards
> Mukesh
>