CFT: new trunk(4)

[Niki Denev]

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Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:37:57AM +0300, Niki Denev wrote:
>>>> Andrew Thompson wrote:
>>>>> Here is a patch to add OpenBSD's trunk(4) interface, and also includes
>>>>> LACP support which came from agr(4) on NetBSD.  Im interested in anyone
>>>>> who wants to test this and in particular lacp mode if you have a switch
>>>>> that supports it. 
>>>>>
>> I tried today to do the wireless/wired roaming, almost as given
>> in the man page, with the exception that my wireless interface (ath),
>> uses WPA, and i'm trying to run dhclient on the trunk interface.
>> However it does not work as expected, and i'm not sure why...
>> The problem is that if ath0 is a member of the trunk0 interface
>> it always deassociates a few seconds after associating.
>> If i remove it from the trunk group it associates perfectly, and
>> keeps the link up.
> 
> The updated patch here partially fixes the problem, the EAP packets will
> be passed now.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/if_trunk-20070409.diff
> 
> The remaining issue is that when the wireless interface is added to the
> trunk it will get a down/up as part of changing the MAC address. This
> causes wpa_supplicant to close and it doesnt get relaunched. Manually
> starting wpa_supplicant works but I need to find a way around this.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Andrew

Great, thanks!

I'm recompiling now and will let you know shortly if everything works
properly.

Regards,
Niki
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