docs/148071: Failover mode between wired and wireless interfaces

[Harry Matthiesen Jensen]

>Number:         148071
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Failover mode between wired and wireless interfaces
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 22 17:20:06 UTC 2010
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>Originator:     Harry Matthiesen Jensen
>Release:        8.0-STABLE
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>Environment:
FreeBSD mugin.localhost 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #4: Tue Jun 15 12:49:31 CEST 2010     root at mugin.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MUGIN  amd64
>Description:
The Handbook, "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html#NETWORKING-LAGG-WIRED-AND-WIRELESS", example 31-3 descripes:

"In this setup, we will treat the wired interface, bge0, as the master, and the wireless interface, wlan0, as the failover interface. The wlan0 was created from iwn0 which we will set up with the wired connection's MAC address. The first step would be to obtain the MAC address from the wired interface:"

In my setup this will not work, and I'm not sure why, probably because of the Zyxel ISP router I have.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
I simply used the wireless MAC address instead, to the wired adapter, and everything worked right away.

I will suggest that the documentation mentions that either way around should be tried, if there is problems with this setup ;-).

You could descripe it it as Option 1 and Option 2 ;-)

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