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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:35:43 +0300
From:      xdsgrrr <xdsgrrr@consultcommerce.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Subject:   Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?
Message-ID:  <1253867743.41478.17.camel@so1-ay279.globul.bg>
In-Reply-To: <C0778F03-C450-4C69-8AF0-4A6A8F9E690F@gmail.com>
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>From STP and RSTP  side etherchannels looks as one link so this can be
STP issue if nobody have configured the switch on the other end   If its
not the case  there is a other modes that you can play with fec (static)
lacp that can fit you needs , if you still have a problems provide more
information about the setup :)) of the both sides 
 :)) to otherwise we can just make theories 
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 09:32 +0300, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> How long exactly is that "momentary network outage"?
> If it's longer than a few (1-5) seconds it may be due to
> RSTP or STP enabled on the switch.
> You could try disabling STP on these ports and see if it will
> start forwarding traffic faster.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Nikolay Denev
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 Sep, 2009, at 03:23 , Peter Steele wrote:
> 
> > We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of  
> > a network outage. The default configuration looks like this:
> >
> > lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0  
> > mtu 1500
> >         
> > options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
> >        ether 00:a0:d1:e3:58:26
> >        inet 192.168.17.40 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 192.168.31.255
> >        inet 192.168.22.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.22.255
> >        media: Ethernet autoselect
> >        status: active
> >        laggproto failover
> >        laggport: nfe1 flags=0<>
> >        laggport: nfe0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>
> >
> > If nfe0 was to fail, we get an (almost) automatic failover to nfe1:
> >
> > lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0  
> > mtu 1500
> >         
> > options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
> >        ether 00:a0:d1:e3:58:26
> >        inet 192.168.17.40 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 192.168.31.255
> >        inet 192.168.22.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.22.255
> >        media: Ethernet autoselect
> >        status: active
> >        laggproto failover
> >        laggport: nfe1 flags=4<ACTIVE>
> >        laggport: nfe0 flags=1<MASTER>
> >
> > The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback  
> > occurs making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network  
> > outage that we want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg  
> > device to stay with the currently active interface, even if the  
> > MASTER interface comes back online?
> >
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Atanas Yankov
Data Networks & Security Section
IT Division

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