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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-01-06 13:41:46 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-01-06 13:41:46 +0000 |
commit | 99ae59f4f873f09a3ddee4a3a8be0b5b766feaac (patch) | |
tree | 994c71741432d2bc5745130fd2144b7aad94a776 /share | |
parent | 9e65c61fceeeddfda76c575512a510d042132084 (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.4 | 15 |
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. |