[brussels-dev] [clearview-discuss] review for merged UV/Brussels dladm(1M) man page

[James Carlson]

Sebastien Roy writes:
> Peter Memishian wrote:
> >  > >  > What is it PORTSTATE?
> >  > > 
> >  > > Yes, it seems like PORTSTATE needs to be described.
> >  > 
> >  > I meant to ask:  What is PORTSTATE?  Is there a way to describe this in a 
> >  > way that makes sense to an administrator and in a way which is distinct 
> >  > from STATE?
> > 
> > The port state indicates whether the individual aggregation port is
> > standby or attached, which is different than the link state.  Or am I
> > misunderstanding the question?
> 
> You didn't misunderstand the question, I'm the one who's a bit confused 
> regarding what this means.  Are the definitions of "attached" and 
> "standby" defined in 802.3ad?  If yes, then adding ", as defined by 
> 802.3ad" might be a good idea.

If you're going to cite it, "802.3ad" is now dead.  The relevant bits
have been folded into IEEE 802.3 itself -- I think that happened with
-2002.  We're now up to 802.3-2005.

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