Possible mistake on handbook - Section 30.7: Link Aggregation

[Thomas Hoffmann]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael at gav.ufsc.br> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was reading the handbook and stumbled upon the following sentence:
>
> "Failover allows traffic to continue to flow even if an interface becomes
> available."
>
>
> In my understanding it should say unavailable, as if one of the links was
> no longer passing traffic, therefore the failover feature redirects traffic
> to the remaining interface that is active.
>
> The webpage is the following:
>
> http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html
>
>
> Thank you for all the hard work on FreeBSD.
>
>
> Cordially,
> Rafael


Also, does "an interface" convey what we need here? For any given N-way
aggregation, can't we have N-1 (one or more, but not all) interfaces become
unavailable and still have a working link?

-Tom