Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:56:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> Cc: "J. Porter Clark" <jpc@porterclark.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching from wired to wireless getting "network down" Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0903281251230.21952@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <49CE51E2.4000807@freebsd.org> References: <1238217783.00093348.1238205603@10.7.7.3> <20090328160858.GA57695@auricle.charter.net> <49CE51E2.4000807@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Sam Leffler wrote: > J. Porter Clark wrote: >> I've been playing around with this sort of setup, too, where I >> want a command line to change from wired to wireless (at the >> same IP address, even) and back again. I haven't found the >> magic solution, particularly one that doesn't have a lot of >> hardcoded network config in it. I'm also somewhat ticked that >> "route flush" doesn't really flush all routes like the man page >> says. 8-) Eventually, I usually arrive at a point where I can't >> find my way back and have to reboot to get some work done. >> >> Some things I've been using are "route delete <my ip address>" >> and "route add -ifp <interface> default". Might be a good idea >> to "arp -a -d", too. >> >> > If this is 7.x or later, have you tried using lagg(4) to do automatic > failover? The man page says wpa doesn't work but after talking to Andrew we > think that's no longer true. I haven't had a chance to try it myself. Yeah, but as far as I can recall, lagg isn't able to change the MAC address on the cloned wlanX interface. lagg with wireless and wired interfaces used to work before wlan cloning was added. I haven't tested it in a while, though. Has this been fixed? -- DE
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