Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:29:06 -0700 (PDT) From: bmanning
Ick. you really believe that BGP can or should be augmented to understand application "liveness"? BGP reaching past the
From the BGP scanner's perpective, it's just checking another keepalive. What generates the keepalive for the route matters not. Do you mean that a dead server is just as "up" as a live server, yet a dead link is not as "up" as a live link? That's
And why not? BGP deals in reachability information. Perhaps it conventionally represents interface and link state, but there is nothing making that the One True Way. preposterous.
router, running a "ps -augx" and then performing applications specific tricks?
No need to use gross shell scripts. Far better means of IPC exist. Please read my previous messages.
I guess that when all you have/understand is a hammer, everything becomes a nail.
If you have any specific technical complaints ("not how it's usually done" doesn't count), I'm all ears. I'm also open to a better way; my MUA seems to have truncated the part where you suggested one. :-)
Wait... Its a joke! you just forgot the :)
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