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Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 17:14:22 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r236178 - in head: sbin/ifconfig sys/net
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On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:13:05PM +0000, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
E>   The real-world case is when I am bundling together my Ethernet and
E>   WiFi interfaces and using multiple profiles for accessing network in
E>   different places: system being booted up with one profile, but later
E>   this profile being exchanged to another one, followed by 'service
E>   netif restart' will not add WiFi interface back to the lagg: the
E>   "stop" action from 'service netif restart' will shut down my main WiFi
E>   interface, so wlan0 that exists in the lagg0 will be destroyed and
E>   purged from lagg0; the "start" action will try to re-add both
E>   interfaces, but since Ethernet one is already in lagg0, ifconfig will
E>   refuse to add the wlan0 from WiFi interface.

Although the lagg(4) change is definetely a needed fix, the way of network
roaming via stacking WiFi and Ethernet into lagg(4) always looked like
a huge crutch to me.

Isn't the problem solvable via a some kind of smarter dhclient? How other
UNIX-like OS-es solve this?

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Totus tuus, Glebius.