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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-01-06 13:46:48 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-01-06 13:46:48 +0000
commitb605978f372a25cfa2f6d3664b2d7a42ebcad6f7 (patch)
treee1effb7b001bbee43f16f5b070e9734f86357081 /share
parent99ae59f4f873f09a3ddee4a3a8be0b5b766feaac (diff)
make the descriptions of roundrobin and loadbalance more consistent,
and better explain what they do; help/ok sthen
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/trunk.414
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 b/share/man/man4/trunk.4
index 699d5789d25..25c4fa6c133 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/trunk.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/trunk.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.21 2008/01/06 13:41:45 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.22 2008/01/06 13:46:47 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ The interface link state is used to validate if the port is active or
not.
.Bl -tag -width loadbalance
.It Ic roundrobin
-Distributes outgoing traffic using a round-robin scheduler
-through all active ports and accepts incoming traffic from
-any active port.
+Distributes outgoing traffic through all active ports
+and accepts incoming traffic from any active port.
+A round-robin scheduler is used to aggregate the traffic.
.It Ic failover
Sends and receives traffic only through the master port.
If the master port becomes unavailable,
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ the next active port is used.
The first interface added is the master port;
any interfaces added after that are used as failover devices.
.It Ic loadbalance
-Balances outgoing traffic across the active ports based on hashed
-protocol header information and accepts incoming traffic from
-any active port.
+Distributes outgoing traffic through all active ports
+and accepts incoming traffic from any active port.
+A hash of the protocol header is used to maintain packet ordering.
The hash includes the Ethernet source and destination address, and, if
available, the VLAN tag, and the IP source and destination address.
.It Ic broadcast