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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-06-09 13:53:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-06-09 13:53:35 +0000 |
| commit | 1f6000ab8d40467e3b91754c48d5ad76822ce2db (patch) | |
| tree | 1810a123c9cb6338c03436c52ad92c66911d7b57 /share | |
| parent | 2ceb494bd18032dc6c44d4c23bbb291ed6f6372e (diff) | |
improve the description of failover; ok reyk
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/trunk.4 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 b/share/man/man4/trunk.4 index 52257896bdf..ac705b771d2 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/trunk.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.17 2006/06/05 21:42:31 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.18 2006/06/09 13:53:34 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -61,8 +61,11 @@ Distributes outgoing traffic using a round-robin scheduler through all active ports and accepts incoming traffic from any active port. .It Ic failover -Sends and receives traffic only through the master or the next active -port. +Sends and receives traffic only through the master 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. .It Ic loadbalance Balances outgoing traffic across the active ports based on hashed protocol header information and accepts incoming traffic from |