From e86ae43cc9f934b363a3ae53efee52277c09abe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Davis Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 05:37:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Link Aggregation and Failover section improvements - Explicitly show you have to bring the interfaces up in the examples - Improve wording around bringing the interfaces up PR: docs/159374 --- .../handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml | 29 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml index b6f0702248..ab8e0a1c2a 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml @@ -3377,12 +3377,14 @@ BEGEMOT-BRIDGE-MIB::begemotBridgeDefaultBridgeIf.0 s bridge2 channel-group 1 mode active channel-protocol lacp - On the &os; machine create the &man.lagg.4; interface using - fxp0 and - fxp1, with an IP Address of + Create the &man.lagg.4; interface using + fxp0 and fxp1, + and bring the interfaces up with the IP Address of 10.0.0.3/24: - &prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 create + &prompt.root; ifconfig fxp0 up +&prompt.root; ifconfig fxp1 up +&prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 create &prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto lacp laggport fxp0 laggport fxp1 10.0.0.3/24 View the interface status by running: @@ -3437,14 +3439,15 @@ ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp lag Failover mode Failover mode can be used to switch over to a secondary interface if - the link is lost on the master interface. Create and configure the - lagg0 interface, with + the link is lost on the master interface. Bring the underlying + physical interfaces up. Create the &man.lagg.4; interface, using fxp0 as the master interface and - fxp1 as the secondary interface, - with an IP Address of 10.0.0.15/24: - + fxp1 as the secondary interface and assign + an IP Address of 10.0.0.15/24: - &prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 create + &prompt.root; ifconfig fxp0 up +&prompt.root; ifconfig fxp1 up +&prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 create &prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto failover laggport fxp0 laggport fxp1 10.0.0.15/24 The interface will look something like this, the major @@ -3523,11 +3526,13 @@ bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 &prompt.root; ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_router up - Create the &man.lagg.4; interface with bge0 + Bring the bge0 interface up. Create + the &man.lagg.4; interface with bge0 as master, and failover to wlan0 if necessary: - &prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 create + &prompt.root; ifconfig bge0 up +&prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 create &prompt.root; ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto failover laggport bge0 laggport wlan0 The interface will look something like this, the major