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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-11-30 07:41:02 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-11-30 07:41:02 +0000
commite992a93b409dda5e0901c59a72aa6c7e980a56bb (patch)
tree18d47f84bf7c29c7b09cd07310ec8570a441b24a /share/man/man4
parent0f1c8f191ecefbb9ed9939b33e0e4e1f2e94aff5 (diff)
use the same macro consistently for the various carp balancing modes;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/carp.412
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/carp.4 b/share/man/man4/carp.4
index 42ed7d7460e..a6a3bae2709 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/carp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/carp.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: carp.4,v 1.38 2015/11/03 17:45:32 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: carp.4,v 1.39 2017/11/30 07:41:01 jmc 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: November 3 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2017 $
.Dt CARP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -162,9 +162,7 @@ The filtering function uses a hash over the source and destination
address of the IPv4 or IPv6 packet and compares the result against the
state of the carpnode.
.Pp
-IP balancing is activated by setting the
-.Cm balancing
-mode to
+IP balancing is activated by setting the balancing mode to
.Cm ip .
This is the recommended default setting.
In this mode, carp uses a multicast MAC address, so that a switch
@@ -175,13 +173,13 @@ MAC address being mapped to a unicast IP.
This can be resolved by using one of the following unicast options.
For scenarios where a hub is used it is not necessary to use a multicast MAC
and it is safe to use the
-.Ar ip-unicast
+.Cm ip-unicast
mode.
Manageable switches can usually be tricked into forwarding unicast
traffic to all cluster nodes ports by configuring them into some
sort of monitoring mode.
If this is not possible, using the
-.Ar ip-stealth
+.Cm ip-stealth
mode is another option, which should work on most switches.
In this mode
.Nm