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Authored by araujo on Aug 5 2014, 3:01 AM.
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Summary

The lagg(4) interface is based on trunk(4) interface of OpenBSD;
The FreeBSD is the only system that has the FEC protocol, that is a simple alias
to loadbalance protocol and does not implement the ancient Cisco FEC standard.

It is time to remove it from FreeBSD to avoid any kind of misunderstanding.

Test Plan
  • Just try to set a lagg(4) interface with laggproto fec.

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araujo retitled this revision from to - Remove the useless and deprecated fec protocol..
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araujo added reviewers: thompsa, glebius.

As fec is just an alias to loadbalance I would remove it only from share/man/man4/lagg.4 and any other documentation. This allows ifconfig to keep working and the supporting code in sys/net/if_lagg.c is rather trivial.

Hello thompsa@

Here is a new patch, I only removed the 'fec' entry from lagg(4) and ifconfig(8) man pages. We keep the compatibility.

I'm waiting your review and approval.

Best Regards,

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 17 2014, 10:00 AM