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Old 13th May 2008
rfranzke rfranzke is offline
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Default Lagg failover on FreeBSD 7.0 Dell 1950/Broadcom 5708 NICs

Having some issues using lagg on a Dell server with FreeBSD 7.0. Trying to set up the two onboard NICs in lagg failover mode. I can get the lagg configuration to load via rc.conf and everything on the surface to looks to be loading correctly. The configuration can be seen using ifconfig and I have a lagg interface with two NICs assigned to it. Yet when I go to simulate a failure by either uplugging the master/active NIC or downing the switchport its connected to, I lose connectivity to the box. If I do an ifconfig and run ping from the bsd server to net, the failover seems to work. Obviously not a good solution. I first would like to see if anyone can see something I am doing wrong in my configuration. The following is whats contained in my rc.conf file with regards to lagg:

cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
ifconfig_bce1="UP"
ifconfig_bce0="UP"
ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport bce1 laggport bce0 10.10.20.118 netmask 255.255.255.0"

boot loader.conf entry (Although it seems to make no difference whether this is in here or not):

if_lagg_load="YES"

ifconfig output:

bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING, JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
ether 00:1e:c9:ab:4c:76
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lagg: laggdev lagg0
bce1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING, JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
ether 00:1e:c9:ab:4c:76
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lagg: laggdev lagg0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=1bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING, JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
ether 00:1e:c9:ab:4c:76
inet 10.10.20.118 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.20.255
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: active
laggproto failover
laggport: bce0 flags=0<>
laggport: bce1 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>

Any input would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
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