Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:50:48 -0500 From: Erik Schwartz <schwartz.erik.c@gmail.com> To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Additional rc.conf example for: 31.6 Link Aggregation and Failover Message-ID: <4E406848.80800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1108041629130.7526@multics.mit.edu> References: <4E3AD8B7.30304@gmail.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1108041629130.7526@multics.mit.edu>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010500040906070504020403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello again, Ben, On 8/4/11 3:33 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > Hi Erik, > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Erik Schwartz wrote: > >> Handbook section "31.6 Link Aggregation and Failover" is well-written >> and helpful, but (IMO) suffers from a deficiency of useful rc.conf >> examples. It currently contains only one, and the one it contains is an >> (again, IMO) unusual use case. >> >> May I provide a second, working rc.conf example? If so, what are the >> steps to do so? > > We actually just got a PR a few days ago from someone who had trouble > with the LACP case and would probably have benefitted from another example. > (This is http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/159374 ) The person who submitted that PR seems to have had an experience very similar to mine. FWIW, I noticed in that PR you asked: > Is the "up" really necessary for ifconfig_lagg0, here? < >From my own testing on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2, the answer is "yes". > If you're willing to provide a patch for another example, or even just > the example itself, that would be useful. Email to this list is > probably sufficient for submitting the example; if you want to learn how > to submit a nicely formatted patch that makes our life a bit easier, > http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ is a starting point for links. > I apologize, but I ran into some issues with this (%make lint -- throwing errors about documents I did not change, and I have not been able to resolve). So I am taking the crude approach and attaching a diff of the .old and my (proposed) update to the SGML. The change was just a few lines. It seems unlikely that I introduced a new, syntactical problem with the SGML, but - again - I wasn't able to verify that with %make lint. > I'm pretty overworked for the next week or two, but if it hasn't been > patchified by someone else by then, I'll come back and take a look. > > Thanks, > > Ben Kaduk Thanks for your reply, and I appreciate you taking the time to review my change. Best regards - -- Erik Schwartz <schwartz.erik.c@gmail.com> | GPG key 6F4A13EF --------------010500040906070504020403--
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