On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:58:58 am Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Thanks to the hints posted here about "failover redundancy" I've > successfully set up lagg(4) in order to have a machine with redundant > failover connection to two switches. > > > The only thing that's missing is the correct configuration in > /etc/rc.conf. > > Here's what I've got so far in my rc.conf: > > defaultrouter="192.168.9.1" > if_lagg_load="YES"
This belongs in /boot/loader.conf, not /etc/rc.conf. > ifconfig_bge0="UP" > ifconfig_bge1="UP" > ifconfig_lagg0="create" This should be: cloned_interfaces="lagg0" Once you fix those two things you should be in good shape. JN > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport bge0 laggport bge1 192.168.9.5 > netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > The problem is that once the machine boots the "lagg0" interface > doesn't get created/activated; a "ifconfig" done after booting shows > that no lagg interface is there, but the physical interfaces (bge0, > bge1) are UP. > > > Only after I manually enable the lagg-interface it with "ifconfig > lagg0 create" the interface is created but then it automagically gets > the right IP-address and routing also works: > > # ifconfig > bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> > ether 00:08:02:47:0d:56 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > lagg: laggdev lagg0 > bge1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> > ether 00:08:02:47:0d:56 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > lagg: laggdev lagg0 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> > inet 192.168.9.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.9.255 > ether 00:08:02:47:0d:56 > media: Ethernet autoselect > status: active > laggproto failover > laggport: bge1 flags=4<ACTIVE> > laggport: bge0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE> > > > I've tried numerous variations of the "ifconfig_lagg0"-lines in > /etc/rc.conf above - with or without create etc. - to no extent. Upon > boot the lagg-interface remains down basically cutting of the box from > the network until I enable the lagg-interface from the console :-(. > > Thanks much in advance for any clue, > -ewald > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"