NFSROOT and lagg(4)

[Eugene Grosbein]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 01:44:21PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:

> "what I want" is to pxe/netboot and then switch over to using a lagg(4)
> interface that includes the interface used in the pxe/netboot boot up.

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> lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 
> options=5259b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
>         ether 00:30:18:c5:0a:a9
>         inet 192.168.100.53 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: active
>         groups: lagg
>         laggproto lacp lagghash l2,l3,l4

OTOH, how do you expect make other side of link pass IP packets
to your side before LACP protocol configures a port?
Do you have pxe/netboot client capable of LACP?

I guess, you'll have to stick with protocol-less "failover"
LAGG mode using just physical link states.

Eugene Grosbein