Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:25:57 +0400 From: Serg <sergv326@gmail.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>,Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: kaltheat@googlemail.com, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lagg failover issue Message-ID: <a464a34a-5a4d-4b8d-8864-d16c89106bfd@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <20120902212952.GB2654@aspire.rulingia.com> References: <20120830215147.GA2383@-> <20120831104532.GA1758@-> <CAJ-VmoneEMvCpNotru%2Bws9NdcyExnkGfxnx2W=z7e-Myb1RWRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120902212952.GB2654@aspire.rulingia.com>
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Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> написал(а): >Adrian, > >On 2012-Aug-31 04:29:53 -0700, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>You can't override set the outbound MAC address of a wireless station. >>It associates with the MAC address of the card/vap/device. The AP >>_will_ store that MAC address in its node table. > >Are you saying I can't portably do the following: > # ifconfig ath0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 > # ifconfig create wlan0 wlandev ath0 ssid my_net up > >My understanding was that the first line changes the MAC associated >with ath0. The second line then creates a wlan device and allows ath0 >to associate with an AP with ssid "my_net" - and this association will >be performed using the updated MAC address. Which part of this >doesn't work? > >>What you really want is for the same IP to exist but only both >>interfaces and have the source interface/MAC seamlessly change. > >Actually, lagg(4) requires all associated interfaces to have the same >MAC address - it doesn't change them during operation. Normally, it >updates the MAC address when it does the "addm" but this doesn't work >for "addm wlan0" (presumably for the reasons you describe) but >manually changing the MAC address of the WiFi NIC before creating the >wlan device avoids this. > >-- >Peter Jeremy You can change lagg MAC address to match your wlan MAC address but it changes nothing...
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