From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 02:13:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5321B1065670 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:13:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2878FC1C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so8839820ewy.13 for ; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:13:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.10.207 with SMTP id q15mr8329039ebq.38.1294625606225; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:13:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.8.142 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:13:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110110030718.2edf4a31.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4D29063A.2050303@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110110030718.2edf4a31.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Chris Brennan Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:13:06 -0500 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPA Supplicant issue (maybe) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:13:28 -0000 On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:38:02 -0500, Chris Brennan > wrote: > > Pardon the n00bishness here, but what is lagg0? Got a link? > > THIS! IS! FREEBSD!!! :-) > > Better to have asked then to not ask and remain ignorant. > On FreeBSD, in difference to many "modern" Linusi, you have > excellent documentation. If you see some interface you don't > know yet, try > > % apropos lagg > > or just right away > > % man lagg > > and you'll see that lagg is the "link aggregation and link > failover interface". > > You see that all the documentation is already installed on > your system, accessible at every time, no need for an > Internet connection. > > FreeBSD's high quality manpages do contain entries for the > system binaries, kernel interfaces, library functions, > device drivers, configuration files and many maintenance > procedures. Some quality ports of everyday average desktop > software do follow this approach (see "man mplayer", > "man xmms", "man opera"), but many don't (see = don't > see "man firefox", "man thunderbird", or almost any KDE > program, where documentation is traditionally left to > the users, or left out, or redirected at the web, a > forum or a wiki, usually outdated). :-) > > So I see ... my question is this then ... I've got http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html open as well and it's using the examples fxp0 and fxp1 ... are these example interfaces and I would substitute my real, physical devices? That being said ... do I add the driver created device (bwn0) or do I add wlan0? Or both plus my wired device? That part isn't all that clear to me.