Switching from wired to wireless getting "network down"

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 28 15:56:39 PDT 2009


On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> No, there's no PR as far as I can tell.  I'll try and set up a
> test system to duplicate it again, so I have proper information
> for a PR.
>
> I seem to recall that if wlanX is your primary/first lagg
> interface, then it uses the MAC address from the underlying
> interface as lagg's MAC address.  In this case it works,
> but that's not the usual case 'cause you'd rather use a
> faster wired interface first if it exists.
>
> So this works:
>
>  ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport wlan0 laggport bge0
>
> but this doesn't:
>
>  ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport bge0 laggport wlan0
>
> In the latter case, lagg only works when bge0 is up.

Also note that lagg(4) still references ath0 in its example instead
of wlan0.

     # ifconfig em0 up
     # ifconfig ath0 nwid my_net up
     # ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport ath0 \
             192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

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DE


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