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

[Sebastien Roy]

James Carlson wrote:
> 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.

Okay, then "as defined by IEEE 802.3".  Honestly, I'm not quite 
comfortable punting to the 802.3 spec for administrative things, since 
the documents aren't meant to be read by administrators.  I guess I'm not 
making things worse, though, since there's 0 documentation on any of the 
show-aggr output today in dladm(1M).

-Seb