ether <-> wlan failover still is broken

[Eugene Grosbein]

22.03.2018 20:57, Zeus Panchenko wrote:

> while having no any problem with separate (lagg less) mode, when I use
> ether or wlan without aggregating, I am still experiencing severe problem
> with ether <-> wlan failover
> 
> after upgrade to 11.1 I decided to give another try to the handbook Example 30.3.
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html#networking-lagg-wired-and-wireless
> 
> it still does *not* work for me
> 
> after wlan MAC address change (to the one of the ethernet as it's described in
> the handbook), wpa_supplicant becomes unable to associate with AP
> 
>> uname -a
> FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p8 #0
> 
>> pciconf -lv
> ath0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x1785103c chip=0x0032168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
>     device     = 'AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter'
>     class      = network
> re0 at pci0:7:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3387103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x06 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
>     device     = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> 
> does anybody else face same trouble, please?

lagg uses fabricated MAC by default and your WiFi connection does not seem like that.

You should try forcing lagg to use MAC of wireless card instead of fabricated one:
ifconfig lagg0 ether $(ifconfig wlan0 | awk '/hwaddr/ {print $2}')