Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:32:01 -0400 From: Thomas Hoffmann <trh411@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br> Subject: Re: Possible mistake on handbook - Section 30.7: Link Aggregation Message-ID: <CAB7-odmc7VVBTRDANJtd2c2KsvVr_SizoEOLzHTDgw%2B1t_CFeg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJB2g-FKyFbO4wvkOUL=2nQk=v1Y3816sJnUcj-2O2YMk5hThg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJB2g-FKyFbO4wvkOUL=2nQk=v1Y3816sJnUcj-2O2YMk5hThg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br> wrote: > Hello, > > I was reading the handbook and stumbled upon the following sentence: > > "Failover allows traffic to continue to flow even if an interface becomes > available." > > > In my understanding it should say unavailable, as if one of the links was > no longer passing traffic, therefore the failover feature redirects traffic > to the remaining interface that is active. > > The webpage is the following: > > http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html > > > Thank you for all the hard work on FreeBSD. > > > Cordially, > Rafael 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? -Tom
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