Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:37:10 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_lagg(4) and rc.conf Message-ID: <20070705193710.GA85299@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <200707031510.05713.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <20070703183516.GA70961@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <200707031510.05713.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:10:05PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 02:35:16 pm Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a lagg(4) interface out of rc.conf. FreeBSD > > doesn't want to initialize the interface at boot. I'm obviously > > missing some little thing. I'm successfully loading if_lagg into the > > kernel, so that's not the problem. > > > > I can configure the interface at the command line if I do a "ifconfig > > lagg0 create" and then enter the configuration, but there doesn't seem > > to be a rc.conf flag to tell the system to create an interface? > > > > Here's my rc.conf for these interfaces: > > > > ifconfig_em3="up" > > ifconfig_em7="up" > > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport em3 laggport em7 10.184.1.19 > > netmask 0xffff0000" > > I haven't played with if_lagg yet, but you should be able to use the > cloned_interfaces knob in /etc/rc.conf to create the interface. e.g.: > > cloned_interfaces="lagg0" > ifconfig_em3="up" > ifconfig_em7="up" > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport em3 laggport em7 10.184.1.19 \ > netmask 0xffff0000" > > if_lagg(4) mentions this briefly (at the end before the examples) This last bit, of course, was the key to the whole thing. I don't know how many times I looked at the man page without seeing that. Thanks for pointing it out. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org, mwlucas@FreeBSD.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Coming Soon: "Absolute FreeBSD" -- http://www.AbsoluteFreeBSD.com On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 pairs of my soiled undies "for security reasons."
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