diff --git a/network/ucarp/ucarp.desc b/network/ucarp/ucarp.desc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4af7222f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/ucarp/ucarp.desc @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- +[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. +[COPY] +[COPY] Filename: package/.../ucarp/ucarp.desc +[COPY] Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project +[COPY] +[COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. +[COPY] +[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the +[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. +[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- + +[I] A portable implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) + +[T] UCARP allows a couple of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in order +[T] to provide automatic failover. It is a portable userland implementation of the +[T] secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD's +[T] alternative to the patents-bloated VRRP). +[T] Strong points of the CARP protocol are: very low overhead, cryptographically +[T] signed messages, interoperability between different operating systems and no +[T] need for any dedicated extra network link between redundant hosts. + +[U] http://www.ucarp.org + +[A] Frank DENIS +[M] The OpenSDE Community + +[C] extra/network + +[L] BSD +[S] Stable +[V] 1.5.2 +[P] X -----5---9 800.000 + +[D] 2670000979 ucarp-1.5.2.tar.bz2 http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/ucarp/