On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:57:53AM +0200, Jay Vosburgh wrote: > FWIW, I usually reference the older standards 2008 or 2014, as > the 2020 edition changes a lot of things and bonding isn't necessarily > conformant to those changes (e.g., many of the state machines are > different in large or small ways). Technically, the bonding > implementation was written to the pre-802.1AX standard when it was still > part of 802.3 (hence the name 802.3ad), clause 43. > > This particular bit (the EXPIRED state actions) is the same, > but, for example, the transition test from EXPIRED to DEFAULTED is > different in the 2014 vs 2020 editions, and we need to be careful not to > implement the state machines piecemeal from different editions of the > standard.
Thanks for this info. I will download 2014 version and recheck my changes. Cheers Hangbin
