commit a0ac812a5f861195ed16f3333e3922d8dd239aa9 parent 9ae5a4ff5973448b2b11203ea90a61686f313640 Author: sin <sin@2f30.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:04:08 +0100 Rephrase article Diffstat:
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diff --git a/guides/trunk.md b/guides/trunk.md @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ ### Trunk failover setup on OpenBSD -I have a dedicated machine at home that I use it mainly for sending and +I have a dedicated machine at home that I use mainly for sending and receiving e-mails. The machine has one wired interface as well as a -wireless interface. My wired interface goes over powerline adapter. +wireless interface. My wired interface goes over a powerline adapter. For various reasons every once in a while, the powerline adapter loses sync and as a result I cannot access my machine remotely. One way to solve this problem is to take advantage of the wireless interface -and transparently switch over to it when the wired interface becomes unavailable. +and transparently switch over to it whenever the wired interface becomes unavailable. To do this we'll use a simple form of interface aggregation, also known as trunk failover. For the gory details please refer to: @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ At this point restart the interfaces: Generate some network activity by copying a large file via scp and pull the ethernet cable from your machine. The copy operation might stall but it will automatically -fallthrough to the wireless interface. If you plug your ethernet cable back in -it will switch back to the wired interface. +switch over to the wireless interface. If you plug your ethernet cable back in +it will switch to the wired interface. A sample ifconfig follows from my particular setup: