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diff --git a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 b/share/man/man4/trunk.4 index e50cca4093f..26bedbce968 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/trunk.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/trunk.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.29 2015/03/13 19:58:41 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: trunk.4,v 1.30 2018/08/12 23:50:31 ccardenas 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: March 13 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 12 2018 $ .Dt TRUNK 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -68,12 +68,16 @@ 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 lacp -Uses the IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) +Uses the IEEE 802.3ad (renamed to 802.1AX in 2014) +Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and the Marker Protocol to increase link speed and provide redundancy. LACP trunk groups are composed of ports of the same speed, set to full-duplex operation. This protocol requires a switch which supports LACP. +By default, the LACP implementation uses active-mode LACP, +slow timeout, and 0x8000 (medium) priority as system and port +priorities. .It Ic loadbalance Distributes outgoing traffic through all active ports and accepts incoming traffic from any active port. @@ -144,11 +148,6 @@ such as duplicate address detection (DAD) cannot properly deal with duplicate packets. .Pp -There is no way to configure LACP administrative variables, including -system and port priorities. -The current implementation always performs active-mode LACP and uses -0x8000 as system and port priorities. -.Pp The .Nm interface takes its MTU from the first |