I agree on the WAP thing, but I do not agree onthe persistency, nor the performance issue.The LD can do L5. It can do persistency andit can do high throughput - well at least the model 430. The LD is a solid box and it doesat good job on thousands ...

The LDIR supports statefull failover.We use it for tn3270 . e.g., if you have longlasting connections, then statefull failoveris a good feature. It also comes in handy whenupgrading an LDIR-pair. The CSS, currently, doesnot support statefull failov...

It is a known bug. It is fixed inWebNS 5.02Build 3: ap0502003 (on CCO) - I tried iton a CSS11800 and it worked.

The default vrrp-backup-timer is 3 seconds.You can change it using vrrp-backup-timerin global config mode. Possibly dependingon WebNS version.

If it is NT servers - there is a bug in NT thatmesses up the routing table. We also had thisproblem, and out NT folks created a servicethat adjusts the routing table at each boot tomake the loopback adapter work correctly in NT./Johnny