Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

[Peter Steele]

I posted this on the -net list but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping a wider audience might help.



We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of a network outage. The default configuration looks like this:



lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500

        options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>

        ether 00:a0:d1:e3:58:26

        inet 192.168.17.40 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 192.168.31.255

        inet 192.168.22.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.22.255

        media: Ethernet autoselect

        status: active

        laggproto failover

        laggport: nfe1 flags=0<>

        laggport: nfe0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>



If nfe0 was to fail, we get an (almost) automatic failover to nfe1:



lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500

        options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>

        ether 00:a0:d1:e3:58:26

        inet 192.168.17.40 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 192.168.31.255

       inet 192.168.22.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.22.255

        media: Ethernet autoselect

        status: active

        laggproto failover

        laggport: nfe1 flags=4<ACTIVE>

        laggport: nfe0 flags=1<MASTER>



The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback occurs making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network outage that we want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg device to stay with the currently active interface, even if the MASTER interface comes back online?