Hi, I am working on a project that requires a hot standby configuration, I will be using CARP as the failover mechanism. the central software establishes the connections to remote hosts, and I need the failover to be stateful. so my question is this, can the standby machines be made to think they have a connection to the remote hosts, so that when one of them becomes the master, they can just start communicating without having to go through the connection setup process. I cant have the standbys create real connections, as the remote host only allows a single connection to the listening port, thus having to wait for timeouts etc, would make the failover take an unacceptably long time. Any suggestions or examples of how to achieve this would greatly appreciated. John. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html