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Re: Idea for dynamic/static IP allocation

 

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Gavin Panella
<gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> [5] This API could be extended so that a user could obtain IP addresses
> for use as VIPs by multiple nodes. These wouldn't be deallocated as long
> as one or more of those nodes is still allocated.
>

They should stay allocated unless and until explicitly deallocated by the
user. Those VIPs aren't really associated with nodes in the traditional
sense. You could have every node that existed when the VIP was allocated be
gone but that IP should still be allocated.

Thanks,
Dean

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