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authorMarco Pfatschbacher <mpf@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-09-18 09:18:05 +0000
committerMarco Pfatschbacher <mpf@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-09-18 09:18:05 +0000
commit603e711fe60956e5d60c76c2729bb8acd9495200 (patch)
treedbfb27060732540e773fdde7e0f38301b44dfabf /share/man/man4
parent55e41847c079bbe8c8b29682db1cd4037f5f3edd (diff)
ARP balancing has been changed to use the source MAC address
quite a while ago. Manpage and comment update by Matthew Dempsky. OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/carp.48
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/carp.4 b/share/man/man4/carp.4
index 4accf61a2c3..2952c3e9850 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/carp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/carp.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: carp.4,v 1.27 2007/05/31 19:19:49 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: carp.4,v 1.28 2007/09/18 09:18:04 mpf Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, Ryan McBride. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 18 2007 $
.Dt CARP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ ARP balancing has limited abilities for load balancing the
incoming connections between hosts in an Ethernet network.
It only works for clients in the local network, because
ARP balancing spreads the load by varying ARP replies
-based on the source IP address of the host sending the query.
+based on the source MAC address of the host sending the query.
Therefore it cannot balance traffic that crosses a router, because the
router itself will always be balanced to the same virtual host.
.Pp
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ For load balancing, several
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interfaces are configured to the same IP address, but to different VHIDs.
Once an ARP request is received, the CARP protocol will use a hashing
-function against the source IP address in the ARP request to determine
+function against the source MAC address in the ARP request to determine
which VHID the request belongs to.
If the corresponding
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