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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:01:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "J. Porter Clark" <jpc@porterclark.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switching from wired to wireless getting "network down"
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0903281857150.23196@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <49CEAAD2.7050203@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Sam Leffler wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Sam Leffler wrote:
>> 
>>> if you force it after, and I'm not sure you can make it work).  I'm 
>>> starting to remember now about this.  Was there a PR filed?  I completely 
>>> forgot about this issue and it's likely to happen again w/o one.
>> 
>> No, there's no PR as far as I can tell.  I'll try and set up a
>> test system to duplicate it again, so I have proper information
>> for a PR.
>> 
>> I seem to recall that if wlanX is your primary/first lagg
>> interface, then it uses the MAC address from the underlying
>> interface as lagg's MAC address.  In this case it works,
>> but that's not the usual case 'cause you'd rather use a
>> faster wired interface first if it exists.
>> 
>> So this works:
>>
>>   ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport wlan0 laggport bge0
>> 
>> but this doesn't:
>>
>>   ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport bge0 laggport wlan0
>> 
>> In the latter case, lagg only works when bge0 is up.
>> 
>
> I'm fixing various issues in handling the mac address (in head).  I can now 
> use lagg w/o wpa so long as you force the mac address manually.  If  there 
> had been a PR this problem would not have been lost.

I am sorry :(  I do remember trying to figure out how to do this
myself and did have an outstanding email with you and/or Andrew that
went unanswered.  I got side-tracked on something else after that
and never got back to it.

-- 
DE



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