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diff --git a/share/man/man4/carp.4 b/share/man/man4/carp.4 index 42ed7d7460e..a6a3bae2709 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/carp.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/carp.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: carp.4,v 1.38 2015/11/03 17:45:32 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: carp.4,v 1.39 2017/11/30 07:41:01 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003, Ryan McBride. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: November 3 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2017 $ .Dt CARP 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -162,9 +162,7 @@ The filtering function uses a hash over the source and destination address of the IPv4 or IPv6 packet and compares the result against the state of the carpnode. .Pp -IP balancing is activated by setting the -.Cm balancing -mode to +IP balancing is activated by setting the balancing mode to .Cm ip . This is the recommended default setting. In this mode, carp uses a multicast MAC address, so that a switch @@ -175,13 +173,13 @@ MAC address being mapped to a unicast IP. This can be resolved by using one of the following unicast options. For scenarios where a hub is used it is not necessary to use a multicast MAC and it is safe to use the -.Ar ip-unicast +.Cm ip-unicast mode. Manageable switches can usually be tricked into forwarding unicast traffic to all cluster nodes ports by configuring them into some sort of monitoring mode. If this is not possible, using the -.Ar ip-stealth +.Cm ip-stealth mode is another option, which should work on most switches. In this mode .Nm |