Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:08:54 -0500 From: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br> To: Dru Lavigne <dru@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>, "feld@freebsd.org" <feld@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Possible mistake on handbook - Section 30.7: Link Aggregation Message-ID: <CAJB2g-HNnEn2sqfh8FCBoE%2BrzSVQOzFfUb-JY1bA9AQcRG_eyg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1396274318.36618.YahooMailNeo@web184905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <CAJB2g-FKyFbO4wvkOUL=2nQk=v1Y3816sJnUcj-2O2YMk5hThg@mail.gmail.com> <CAB7-odmc7VVBTRDANJtd2c2KsvVr_SizoEOLzHTDgw%2B1t_CFeg@mail.gmail.com> <533636D4.4040404@weboutsourcing.cz> <1396274318.36618.YahooMailNeo@web184905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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I am glad I could help. Thank you everyone who participated in this thread. Best, Rafael On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Dru Lavigne <dru.lavigne@att.net> wrote: > > > > > > >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 > >
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