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Cc: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Subject: Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?
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On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:12:25 Peter Steele wrote:

> The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback occurs
>  making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network outage that we
>  want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg device to stay with
>  the currently active interface, even if the MASTER interface comes back
>  online?

Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also 
causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using 
loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better?
-- 
Mel