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authordelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2010-10-19 17:49:55 +0000
committerdelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2010-10-19 17:49:55 +0000
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Clarify that lagg(4) sends/receives on active port, not the master port.
Note that this still seems to be a little bit confusing as the concept of "master" is different from what people would expect on a networking equipment.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/lagg.4 b/share/man/man4/lagg.4
index a8604ac..1dd5142 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/lagg.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/lagg.4
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 8, 2010
+.Dd October 18, 2010
.Dt LAGG 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@ The interface link state is used to validate if the port is active or
not.
.Bl -tag -width loadbalance
.It Ic failover
-Sends traffic only through the master port.
+Sends traffic only through the active port.
If the master port becomes unavailable,
the next active port is used.
The first interface added is the master port;
any interfaces added after that are used as failover devices.
.Pp
By default, received traffic is only accepted when they are received
-through the master port.
+through the active port.
This constraint can be relaxed by setting the
.Va net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all
.Xr sysctl 8
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