Hello Adam,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 17:19, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> How would one go about setting up LAGG (LACP, 802.3ad) across _all_ the
> interfaces on a pfSense box?
>
> It looks like I can’t get rid of the WAN interface, which would prevent me
> from assigning it to a LAG group.
>
> What I want to do is take a dual-ethernet board and run all the interfaces
> on VLANs over LAGG so that I’m protected against cable faults, switchport
> faults, NIC failures, even switch failures if I ever stack these and do
> cross-stack LACP.
>
> Yes, I’m using CARP to create a redundant pair of firewalls, but I’d like to
> maximize hardware redundancy as much as possible.
>
> The other issue is that I’ll be creating more VLANs than I have ports; so if
> I’m using VLANs anyway, I figure I may as well go all the way.
>
> I think what would be needed to make this practical is some way of setting
> up LAGG from the console, since in this particular scenario I would be
> setting the switch up for static LAG and .1Q tagging, so would not normally
> have any network connectivity until I configured pfSense to match.

We've been doing this for a few years.
Just set up the lagg on one port, create the vlans on the lagg, then
assign all required interfaces (WAN and before 2.0 LAN) to a VLAN and
finally add the other interface to the lagg.

Regards,
Aarno
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Aarno Aukia
Atrila GmbH
Switzerland

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