FreeBSD 11.0, bxe and lagg

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:39+0100, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote:

> 
> I'm in the process of upgrading my 10.3 servers to 11.0. I have stumbled upon 
> problems with lagg on two boxes.
> 
> They both have QLogic NetXtreme II BCM57800 10GbE network card using the bxe 
> driver.
> 
> My lagg configuration is unchanged in the process but after upgradring to 11.0 
> lagg is no longer working.
> 
> /etc/rc.conf:
> ifconfig_bxe2="up"
> ifconfig_bxe3="up"
> cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
> ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport bxe2 laggport bxe3 129.242.3.9 netmask 
> 255.255.255.192"
> 
> 
> ifconfig lagg0
> lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether .....
>         inet 129.242.3.9 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 129.242.3.63
>         nd options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: active
>         groups: lagg
>         laggproto lacp lagghash l2,l3,l4
>         laggport: bge2 flags=0<>
>         laggport: bge3 flags=0<>
> 
> 
> As you can see the laggport flags are empty where I would expect 
> flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>
> No error messages. The interfaces work ok if I drop using lagg.
> 
> The same configuration has survived the upgrade on boxes using bge
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Why does lagg0 refer to bge2 and bge3 in the ifconfig output, and not 
to bxe2 and bxe3?

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