Switching from wired to wireless getting "network down"

[Mel Flynn]

On Sunday 29 March 2009 20:14:05 Sam Leffler wrote:
> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 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
>
> r190526 makes it possible to do the wired/wireless failover in HEAD.
> The only caveat is you must manually set the mac address of the wireless
> device to match the wired device because lagg's automatic setting of the
> wlanX ifnet doesn't propagate to the underlying device (the way
> if_setlladdr works makes it difficult).  In the mean time you can do:
>
> ifconfig ath0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
>
> where the mac address is whatever your wired nic's address is and then
> setup lagg0 using the wlan; e.g.
>
> ifconfig ath0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
> ifconfig wlan create wlandev ath0 ssid my_net up
> ifconfig lagg create laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 ...
>
> I also verified it works with WPA.  In fact I tested this on a thinkpad
> in a docking station and it did the right thing just un-docking and
> re-docking.  My only complaint is my ping running during all this lost
> one packet in the transition; not sure where.

Great! Does this also work for hostap mode now? I'd like to unify my internal 
network, currently using rum as hostap.
If the answer is no, I pledge to file a PR. ;)