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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-01-06 13:41:46 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-01-06 13:41:46 +0000
commit99ae59f4f873f09a3ddee4a3a8be0b5b766feaac (patch)
tree994c71741432d2bc5745130fd2144b7aad94a776 /share
parent9e65c61fceeeddfda76c575512a510d042132084 (diff)
add a CAVEATS section documenting some issues when using roundrobin
and loadbalance protocols; brad, claudio, and sthen all helped explain this to me, and sthen helped me put the diff together;
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/trunk.415
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 b/share/man/man4/trunk.4
index 395981809ba..699d5789d25 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/trunk.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/trunk.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.20 2007/10/22 14:48:52 pyr Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.21 2008/01/06 13:41:45 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 6 2008 $
.Dt TRUNK 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -122,3 +122,14 @@ The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Reyk Floeter Aq reyk@openbsd.org .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+The trunk protocols
+.Ic roundrobin
+and
+.Ic loadbalance
+require a switch which supports IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation
+for multicast/broadcast packets.
+Otherwise protocols which cannot properly deal with duplicate packets,
+such as
+.Xr inet6 4
+duplicate address detection (DAD), will not work.