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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:17:23 -0700
From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
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Subject: Re: Testing lagg
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:28:34PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've got a new box which features two gigabit ports and I though I'd try 
> lagg with LACP.
> 
> On the box I put the following in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> ifconfig_em0="up"
> ifconfig_em1="up"
> ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport em0 laggport em1 192.168.100.101 
> netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> 
> Then I aggregated the ports on the switch (3com).
> 
> 
> This seems to work fine, although I see a 30 seconds delay from the moment 
> a network cable is unplugged and the moment the network works again.
> Is this normal? Can this time be reduced?
> Any other hint or gotcha?

Can you post a verbose ifconfig (-v) for hte before and after. It will
show the lag identifiers which may help diagnose this.


Andrew