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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:46:31 +0100
From:      Terje Elde <terje@elde.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: lagg(4) question
Message-ID:  <B64BB6ED-0BEE-492A-8E71-3CE696F48B63@elde.net>
In-Reply-To: <201311151449.HAA04566@mail.lariat.net>
References:  <201311151449.HAA04566@mail.lariat.net>

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On 15. nov. 2013, at 15:49, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote:

> I'm interested in using lagg(4) to provide failover from a main wireless link to a backup link. Unfortunately, one of the common failure modes, when a link fails, is for the Ethernet port on the radio to stay up but not pass any traffic.

What Frank said. 

But also, if you can't fix it at L2, look at L3. That is, instead of doing ethernet-failover, you could use IP and routing-based failover, based on RIP or OSPF. That'll be a bit to read up on though. 

Terje




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