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
