indicates whether the actor switch believes the partner switch is prepared to receive or collect network traffic on the network link the partner distributor status value 430 indicates whether the actor switch believes the partner switch is prepared to send or distribute network traffic on the network link in some embodiments the pc status value 420 and or pd status value 430 may be assigned a value of up when the corresponding capability is believed to be ready in the partner switch and a value of dn i e down when the corresponding capability is believed to be not ready in the partner switch in some examples each of the pc status value 420 and or the pd status value 430 may be encoded using a bit in some examples a logic 1 may indicate up and a logic 0 may indicate dn in some examples a logic 0 may indicate up and a logic 1 may indicate dn in some embodiments the partner information field 230 may be used to acknowledge the capability information received in the actor information field 220 of a management packet 200 received from the partner switch in some embodiments partner information field 230 may be implemented using a tlv field for example partner information field 230 may be a partner information tlv of lacp in combination the status values in the actor information field 220 and the partner information field 230 may be used to determine the state of the network link on which management packet 200 is transmitted when the ad status value 330 and the pc status value 420 are both up this means that the network link may be used to transmit network traffic from the actor switch to the partner switch when the ac status value 320 and.