Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:07:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Boris Samorodov" <bsam@passap.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lagg eth+WiFi configuration - works but not "by the book" Message-ID: <62518.69.209.232.160.1500520020.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <d1aebbfc-7cea-475d-3d3d-4a782e3ce7e3@passap.ru> References: <25403.128.135.52.6.1500477382.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <d1aebbfc-7cea-475d-3d3d-4a782e3ce7e3@passap.ru>
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On Wed, July 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Boris Samorodov wrote: > 19.07.2017 18:16, Valeri Galtsev пишет: >> Dear Experts, >> I run FreeBSD on my laptop for a couple of years at least, but finally I >> decided to climb off the tree, and configure networking right. Namely: make a single configuration, and have it using wired connection when available, and wireless when disconnected from wired network. Lagg with failover from wired to wireless seems to be right thing, so I followed brilliant FreeBSD handbook: >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html >> Which never worked for me (WiFi claimed authentication failure), even though each of connections enabled one at a time worked well. > > Recently there was a similar discussion at freebsd-current@ ML with subject "Failover Mode Between Ethernet and Wireless Interfaces broken on >= 11". > >> I have found workaround: Instead of starting wlan0 with MAC address of wired adapter as described in handbook, I did the opposite and started wired interface with MAC address of wireless, then created lagg, - did the >> rest by the book. Which works nicely, I'll paste my /etc/rc.conf below in >> case someone has trouble I had. >> I wonder what I was doing wrong when I followed the handbook and it didn't >> work for me. Any obvious "pilot error"? >> Here is relevant portion of my working /etc/rc.conf (with obfuscated MAC >> address, note that MAC address I start wired card with 70:18:8b:XX:XX:XX >> is MAC address that WiFi card has): >> ifconfig >> ... >> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 >> ether 70:18:8b:XX:XX:XX >> ... >> cat /etc/rc.conf >> ... >> ifconfig_em0="up" >> ifconfig_em0="ether 70:18:8b:XX:XX:XX" >> wlans_ath0="wlan0" >> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" >> create_args_wlan0="country US" >> cloned_interfaces="lagg0" >> ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 DHCP" ... > > You didn't show the configuration that failed to work for you. I use almost configuration as at the Handbook but the line after the > "create_args_wlan0" line: > --- > ifconfig_wlan0=up > --- > My fault. Here is portion of /etc/rc.conf done by the book (by me...) that didn't work for me (MAC address of my wired interface is obfuscated): --- ifconfig_em0="up" wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" create_args_wlan0="wlanaddr 00:21:70:XX:XX:XX" cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 DHCP" --- I modified it as you suggested (any mistakes?): --- ifconfig_em0="up" wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" create_args_wlan0="wlanaddr 00:21:70:XX:XX:XX" ifconfig_wlan0=up cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 DHCP" --- --- But it didn't help: still "no carrier". I also tried to add "country US" to args as folloows: --- ... create_args_wlan0="wlanaddr 00:21:70:e9:ff:97 country US" ... --- (did I screw up with syntax here?) which didn't help either (I have "country US" in my working configuration, but it seems I don't need it as starting wireless on its own without using lagg works without this option. Thanks, Boris for your help. I still have a feeling I am doing something wrong. But luckily, I have working workaround (having wired interface with MAC address of wireless - as opposed to what handbook describes), so I did successfully climbed down off the tree (or out of cave ;-) and made my FreeBSD laptop use wired and wireless connections intelligently (as my macintosh does). Thanks. Valeri > > HTH > -- > WBR, bsam > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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