From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 17:20:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0F1106567D for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF488FC1A for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5MHK6EQ093380 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:06 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o5MHK6V1093379; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:06 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:06 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <201006221720.o5MHK6V1093379@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Harry Matthiesen Jensen Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97431065673 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:11:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87D68FC14 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5MHBVir056716 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:11:31 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o5MHBVVb056715; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:11:31 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <201006221711.o5MHBVVb056715@www.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:11:31 GMT From: Harry Matthiesen Jensen To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 Cc: Subject: docs/148071: Failover mode between wired and wireless interfaces X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:08 -0000 >Number: 148071 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Failover mode between wired and wireless interfaces >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 22 17:20:06 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Harry Matthiesen Jensen >Release: 8.0-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD mugin.localhost 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #4: Tue Jun 15 12:49:31 CEST 2010 root@mugin.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MUGIN amd64 >Description: The Handbook, "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html#NETWORKING-LAGG-WIRED-AND-WIRELESS", example 31-3 descripes: "In this setup, we will treat the wired interface, bge0, as the master, and the wireless interface, wlan0, as the failover interface. The wlan0 was created from iwn0 which we will set up with the wired connection's MAC address. The first step would be to obtain the MAC address from the wired interface:" In my setup this will not work, and I'm not sure why, probably because of the Zyxel ISP router I have. >How-To-Repeat: N/A >Fix: I simply used the wireless MAC address instead, to the wired adapter, and everything worked right away. I will suggest that the documentation mentions that either way around should be tried, if there is problems with this setup ;-). You could descripe it it as Option 1 and Option 2 ;-) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: