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diff --git a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 b/share/man/man4/trunk.4 index d05773134cb..3e340045659 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/trunk.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.6 2005/10/03 20:17:38 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.7 2005/10/04 08:42:00 reyk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2005 Reyk Floeter <reyk@vantronix.net> .\" @@ -54,6 +54,24 @@ and .Ic none for link aggregation and link failover. .Pp +The +.Ic roundrobin +protocol distributes outgoing traffic using a round-robin scheduler +through all active ports; and +.Ic failover +protocol sends outgoing traffic only through the master or the next +active port. +Both protocols receive traffic from all attached ports. +The interface link state is used to validate if the port is active or +not. +.Pp +The +.Ic none +protocol is intended to do nothing: it disables any traffic without +disabling the +.Nm +interface itself. +.Pp The configuration can be done at runtime or by setting up a .Xr hostname.if 5 configuration file for |