Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:32:20 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 258734] lagg man page should not promote setting MAC on wireless interfaces Message-ID: <bug-258734-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D258734 Bug ID: 258734 Summary: lagg man page should not promote setting MAC on wireless interfaces Product: Base System Version: Unspecified Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: kern Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: jwb@freebsd.org I just noticed the following in the lagg man page: The following example uses an active failover interface to set up roam= ing between wired and wireless networks using two network devices. Whenev= er the wired master interface is unplugged, the wireless failover device will be used: # ifconfig em0 up # ifconfig ath0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 # ifconfig create wlan0 wlandev ath0 ssid my_net up # ifconfig lagg0 create # ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 \ 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 (Note the mac address of the wireless device is forced to match the wi= red device as a workaround.) We had a discussion a while back about some non-working Wifi failover configurations and someone discovered that certain popular WiFi devices do = not support overriding the MAC address. Overriding the MAC of the Ethernet interface seems to work more universally. This is what auto-wifi-failover (part of sysutils/auto-admin) now does. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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