On Sun, 27.09.2009 at 09:49:03 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > > On Sat, 12.09.2009 at 22:34:41 +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am trying to configure lagg failover mode on 7.2. > >> > >> I do: > >> > >> # ifconfig xl0 up > >> # ifconfig fxp0 up > >> # ifconfig lagg0 create > >> # ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto failover laggport xl0 laggport fxp0 > >> # dhclient lagg0 > >> > >> And all seems to work ok. Still I disconnect the cable from the master > >> card the connection stops. > >> Although fxp0 becomes active the connection is still dead. If I start > >> pinging any host from that machine > >> the conection comes back to live, but having ping in background all the > >> time is not the solution. > >> > >> Am I doing something wrong or have I missed something in the configuration? > > > > Well, where is xl0 and fxp0 connected to? My first bet would be a > > standard switch, if so try setting both devices to the same MAC address. > > Otherwise the peers you connect to will send the IP packets to the wrong > > MAC address and only after a timeout (or a forced push thanks to the > > ping) will get their ARP cache into shape. > > lagg should automatically make xl0 and fxp0 appear at the same MAC > address. The only time you should have to manually set the MAC > address would be on cloned interfaces such as wlan, because the > cloned interfaces don't propagate the MAC change down to the > interface from which they were cloned.
Interesting, thanks for the hint. I only use it for LAN/WLAN failover, so that's why I have to do this anyway. Regards, Uli _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"