Possible mistake on handbook - Section 30.7: Link Aggregation

Rafael Possamai rafael at gav.ufsc.br
Mon Mar 31 14:09:16 UTC 2014


I am glad I could help. Thank you everyone who participated in this thread.


Best,

Rafael



On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Dru Lavigne <dru.lavigne at att.net> wrote:

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> >Dne 29.3.2014 3:32, Thomas Hoffmann napsal(a):
> >>> I was reading the handbook and stumbled upon the following sentence:
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> >>> "Failover allows traffic to continue to flow even if an interface
> becomes
> >>> available."
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> >> Also, does "an interface" convey what we need here? For any given N-way
> >> aggregation, can't we have N-1 (one or more, but not all) interfaces
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> >> unavailable and still have a working link?
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> >And Cpt. Obvious may add an interface is not enough, you can have four
> >interfaces aggregated in the bond, but there is still no flow without a
> >link. To add even more chaos, both the physical and virtual interfaces
> >are mentioned in the sentence preceding the one which Rafael mentions.
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> >That said, what about something like following?
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> >Failover allows traffic to continue to flow if at least one aggregated
> >network interface has link established.
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> I've commited an edit in r44394. Please let me know if further
> wordsmithing is needed to make it clearer.
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> Thanks Rafael for pointing this out!
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> Cheers,
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> Dru
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