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 -- Aarno Aukia Atrila GmbH Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
