Re: Highly Available OSPF Router.

[Farshad Tavallaei <farshad at ONEBOX.COM>]

Mukesh,

What are the benefits of this idea over the current implementation of
OSPF?

Sean

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Subject: Highly Available OSPF Router.

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