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laggdiskless [2020/08/21 21:30] – Note wlan changes have broken this. peterjeremy | laggdiskless [2020/08/21 22:32] (current) – Document updated lagg configuration. peterjeremy | ||
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====== Using lagg(4) with diskless booting ====== | ====== Using lagg(4) with diskless booting ====== | ||
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- | Note that the following instructions rely on the visibility of a network device associated with the WiFi adapter (ath0 below). | ||
- | have hidden that device and so the following wired/WiFi lagg setup no longer works. | ||
The lagg interface enables transparent failover between (eg) wired & wifi interfaces - making it trivial to combine the flexibility of walking around the house without any cables with the throughput of a wired interface by simply connecting and disconnecting the LAN cable. | The lagg interface enables transparent failover between (eg) wired & wifi interfaces - making it trivial to combine the flexibility of walking around the house without any cables with the throughput of a wired interface by simply connecting and disconnecting the LAN cable. | ||
- | For a normal boot environment, | + | For a normal boot environment, |
ifconfig_re0=" | ifconfig_re0=" | ||
ifconfig_ath0=" | ifconfig_ath0=" | ||
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ifconfig_lagg0=" | ifconfig_lagg0=" | ||
- | If you have multiple boxes available, supporting diskless booting provides a convenient way to install, upgrade or recover systems. | + | With recent wlan software, ath0 is no longer visible so it's necessary to instead attach the WiFi MAC address to the wired NIC |
+ | and explicitly use the WiFi MAC address as the lagg address: | ||
+ | ifconfig_re0=" | ||
+ | wlans_ath0=" | ||
+ | ifconfig_wlan0=" | ||
+ | cloned_interfaces=" | ||
+ | create_args_lagg0=" | ||
+ | ifconfig_lagg0=" | ||
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+ | If you have multiple boxes available, supporting diskless booting provides a convenient way to install, upgrade or recover systems. | ||
+ | the above should work: | ||
Host configuration for ISC dhcpd 3.1: | Host configuration for ISC dhcpd 3.1: |