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