On Mon, Nov 5, 2007 at 12:26 PM, Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
<bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
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>  - PIX/ASA has proprietary serial console fail-over (which is marginally
>  faster than waiting for CARP)

Assuming this is really a problem, could CARP use interface link state
to speed up fail-over?  E.g., if the common setup is two routers with
a direct Ethernet cable for pfsync and the common failure scenario is
power failure (or at least something that brings down the pfsync
device interface), when one router fails, the other could detect the
link state change and then try to more aggressively contact the master
before timing out and taking over.