Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:10:05 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: if_lagg(4) and rc.conf Message-ID: <200707031510.05713.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20070703183516.GA70961@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20070703183516.GA70961@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tuesday 03 July 2007 02:35:16 pm Michael W. Lucas wrote: > I'm trying to configure a lagg(4) interface out of rc.conf. FreeBSD > doesn't want to initialize the interface at boot. I'm obviously > missing some little thing. I'm successfully loading if_lagg into the > kernel, so that's not the problem. > > I can configure the interface at the command line if I do a "ifconfig > lagg0 create" and then enter the configuration, but there doesn't seem > to be a rc.conf flag to tell the system to create an interface? > > Here's my rc.conf for these interfaces: > > ifconfig_em3="up" > ifconfig_em7="up" > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport em3 laggport em7 10.184.1.19 > netmask 0xffff0000" I haven't played with if_lagg yet, but you should be able to use the cloned_interfaces knob in /etc/rc.conf to create the interface. e.g.: cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_em3="up" ifconfig_em7="up" ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport em3 laggport em7 10.184.1.19 \ netmask 0xffff0000" if_lagg(4) mentions this briefly (at the end before the examples), and if_bridge(4) has a pretty good example (you'd substitute lagg for bridge, of course). JN
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