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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:59:22 -0500
From:      Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,  dan_partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10-RC2 current wireless link aggregation not working correctly
Message-ID:  <52B074DA.30307@mail.lifanov.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonwU6nySMPdtBcL2TpOH01av5sfvz=4Co28r%2BiWYH85Nw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/17/13 10:54, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The MAC of the lagg needs to be the same as the wireless interface.
> 
> I'm going to just state right now that using lagg as the failover
> method for doing wireless/wired integration isn't supported by me. If
> someone wants to make it supported then they need to claim it. :)
> 
> 
> -a
> 
> 
> On 17 December 2013 05:06, dan_partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've set up wireless link aggregation on FreeBSD 10 RC1 and RC2 as
>> described in the FreeBSD handbook, on an oldish Compaq nc6320 laptop.
>>
>> What happens is:
>>
>> If I boot the system with the Ethernet cable attached, I correctly get
>> lagg0 active port on master- bg0- and the network is working correctly.
>> (I mainly test pinging my gateway). When I pull the cable out, lagg0
>> device correctly switches to wlan0 as shown by ifconfig (wlan0 is created
>> from wpi0), but at the same time I get no more ping replies from my
>> gateway. I can leave the system in this state for several minutes as an
>> example
>> and no replies are coming through. A simple list of interfaces with
>> ifconfig with no parameters brigs the network back to life, and I start to
>> get back the due ping replyes, this time thrugh wireless link.
>>
>>
>> Please, if possible en-light me on tis problem. I sat at your disposition
>> with any info you may deem necessary to get this fixed (if it needs a fix).
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>

It actually is, in my case.
The macs for em0, wlan0, and lagg0 all match.

I can always do the failover differently, but this used to work with
9.0-RELEASE-9.2-RELEASE.

- Nikolai Lifanov



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