From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 14:01:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 452A1AE5 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm27-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm27-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.55]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B07186 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.39.60.168] by nm27.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Mar 2014 13:58:39 -0000 Received: from [216.39.60.251] by tm4.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Mar 2014 13:58:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1022.access.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Mar 2014 13:58:39 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 278752.11123.bm@omp1022.access.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 69256 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Mar 2014 13:58:39 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1396274319; bh=YWfjY2Q4Ya1cBylbSKbClrPglqHiJZagwg3BYoRqpNc=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=x5tmg8Y7GG3IQyB6A6kMOlldyMutBwAGdHq71FzXySH8y4soctDoEoIR0dyYmmNvpJscw1NIXSPsrJEMxo7atfaVG12nho7QzfTbl0KHmE0wV1A3Gu7O4WcGyielrEtcr/rQ/7eTBY8pOrjUaPkwqZZ840qt7vUh5PRhNudENNI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=att.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=FK3DesETmQrBDVcvengru1EZuGaikh3UEtLdE6ErVMfyLOyFc8qLoEpbaN84pDLQksM1B6XmnFfm519DVicTrmHilKV0wFpHNOgB3r7BDTpUKrP7XyIPfV15Z//ji6qpx/lOaEFGh13KLgjojJvVMGcv4Ip+zylUj/v826XKhyI=; X-YMail-OSG: 91bxnIoVM1lItVeqol7zgDU5SRTOKvDNIExJKF7OmJEsLuX oJScqZXAQh50cOMqf.LO1ZLie2J9NQwDm_scBfYzYh2V3dxJPYI1Nslc5A9x F7hW7VNSscybrvUwxMQUG8dhtPyEM3yYNLwtm8e9nVj6j8eV8MmV48gL5lGw KJYvB5Fe513fEJXRvQ8Oy3lyDd9OfSNhIx3U9hVxF1N3a1k7RNFSpuJ.IZ1N 20.lmtnsYJSI8zyB07CKLEv0Eu1qw1wRtvxG_W4d.Nlnz_6K2xcPQgCLNyDf f2XhoE8NqC0F.IbNUK2z.Va9cq6EPVUIBQM.UHLZTWrOcca1112aW3jyzns5 gD2R_fvaGwSsytxZZu7nmtlmNduMquE0ga_eFTqCzOVVh5Acd5RnGqy6Fuj8 qwbXFA9ggCmuMmReymIvGn0GsAViM0Va7biCOoYxQ_5H5544gSdRBRi4gA24 _CCMVFxMpVCwyT8WgVydr22tyc4BqBAd2aF6a6O_5wLouuaODrrqHsklr Received: from [99.98.83.69] by web184905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:58:38 PDT X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, CgoKCgo.RG5lIDI5LjMuMjAxNCAzOjMyLCBUaG9tYXMgSG9mZm1hbm4gbmFwc2FsKGEpOgo.Pj4gSSB3YXMgcmVhZGluZyB0aGUgaGFuZGJvb2sgYW5kIHN0dW1ibGVkIHVwb24gdGhlIGZvbGxvd2luZyBzZW50ZW5jZToKPj4.Cj4.PiAiRmFpbG92ZXIgYWxsb3dzIHRyYWZmaWMgdG8gY29udGludWUgdG8gZmxvdyBldmVuIGlmIGFuIGludGVyZmFjZSBiZWNvbWVzCj4.PiBhdmFpbGFibGUuIgo.Pgo.PiBBbHNvLCBkb2VzICJhbiBpbnRlcmZhY2UiIGNvbnZleSB3aGF0IHdlIG5lZWQgaGVyZT8gRm9yIGFueSABMAEBAQE- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.181.645 References: <533636D4.4040404@weboutsourcing.cz> Message-ID: <1396274318.36618.YahooMailNeo@web184905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Dru Lavigne Subject: Re: Possible mistake on handbook - Section 30.7: Link Aggregation To: Ondra Knezour , Thomas Hoffmann , "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" , "feld@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <533636D4.4040404@weboutsourcing.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rafael Possamai X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dru Lavigne List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:01:18 -0000 >Dne 29.3.2014 3:32, Thomas Hoffmann napsal(a): >>> I was reading the handbook and stumbled upon the following sentence: >>> >>> "Failover allows traffic to continue to flow even if an interface becomes >>> available." >> >> Also, does "an interface" convey what we need here? For any given N-way >> aggregation, can't we have N-1 (one or more, but not all) interfaces become >> unavailable and still have a working link? > >And Cpt. Obvious may add an interface is not enough, you can have four >interfaces aggregated in the bond, but there is still no flow without a >link. To add even more chaos, both the physical and virtual interfaces >are mentioned in the sentence preceding the one which Rafael mentions. > >That said, what about something like following? > >Failover allows traffic to continue to flow if at least one aggregated >network interface has link established. I've commited an edit in r44394. Please let me know if further wordsmithing is needed to make it clearer. Thanks Rafael for pointing this out! Cheers, Dru