Re: Failover Mode between ether/wlan panics

In reply to: Mario Lobo : "Re: Failover Mode between ether/wlan panics"
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From: Mario Lobo <lobo_at_bsd.com.br>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:55:49 UTC
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 1:30 PM Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, 11:01 Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Something is wrong about getting ether and wlan mac adresses.
>> dmesg shows the same address:
>> ---
>> iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz, REV=0x351
>> iwlwifi0: base HW address: 6c:6a:77:df:09:21
>> (...)
>> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
>> 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xb4204000-0xb4204fff,0xb4200000-0xb4203fff at device 0.0
>> on pci3
>> re0: Ethernet address: 6c:6a:77:df:09:21
>> ---
>> and ifconfig shows:
>> ---
>> re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
>>         ether 6c:6a:77:df:09:21
>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>         status: active
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>>         options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
>>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>         groups: lo
>>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>>         ether 6c:6a:77:df:09:21
>>         inet 192.168.1.74 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>         groups: wlan
>>         ssid MEO-3637C0 channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:06:91:36:37:c0
>>         regdomain ETSI country PT authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>         deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
>>         protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL
>>         parent interface: iwlwifi0
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/24Mbps mode 11g
>>         status: associated
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> ---
>>
>> I disabled wireless at bios and same mac address for ethernet.
>> I don't see a possibility of both cards sharing same mac address...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> escreveu no dia segunda, 1/08/2022 à(s)
>> 13:15:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 21:05 Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to setup a failover mode ethernet/wireless as shown in
>>>> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/book/#networking-lagg-wired-and-wireless
>>>> and I got a panic.
>>>>
>>>> /etc/rc.conf:
>>>> ---
>>>> ifconfig_re0="ether <wlan0 mac address>"
>>>> wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0"
>>>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA"
>>>> create_args_wlan0="country PT"
>>>> cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
>>>> ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport re0 laggport wlan0 DHCP"
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas of what's wrong?
>>>> BTW, no kernel dump and I have dumpdev="AUTO" in /etc/rc.conf...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Nuno Teixeira
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> For this to work, you'll have to clone your wifi MAC to your eth MAC.
>>>
>>
> Your lagg0 interface is missing.
>
>>
Here is my ifconfig:

[~]>ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=80088<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
        ether f8:94:c2:26:f3:54
        hwaddr fc:45:96:fb:3d:82
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        groups: lo
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
vboxnet0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
wlan0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu 1500
        ether f8:94:c2:26:f3:54
        groups: wlan
        ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g)
        regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED
        deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode CAM powersavesleep 100 txpower 30
        bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL
        parent interface: iwm0
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether f8:94:c2:26:f3:54
        inet6 fe80::fa94:c2ff:fe26:f354%lagg0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
        inet 10.17.12.215 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.17.12.255
        laggproto failover lagghash l2,l3,l4
        laggport: re0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>
        laggport: wlan0 flags=0<>
        groups: lagg
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

And here is my rc.conf:

ifconfig_wlan0="mode autoselect WPA powersave up"
wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_flags="-dd"
ifconfig_re0="media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up"
ifconfig_re0="ether f8:94:c2:26:f3:54"
ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport re0 laggport wlan0 DHCP"
cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
-- 
Mario Lobo
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