Comments on: FreeBSD: NIC Bonding / Link Aggregation / Trunking / Link Failover Tutorial

By: shadow

shadow — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:50:27 +0000

this is very good tutorial, it helps me.

By: brij

brij — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:08:56 +0000

Hi, i have two wireless links and want to club the bandwidth of both the links and also provide failover using LAGG.. How can i do it.. and what device L3/L2 switch should i use to do so..

By: vhor

vhor — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:53:53 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial, it helps me.

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:18:04 +0000

For the permanent setup in /etc/rc.conf, I think you want a /24 mask (or whatever prefix length) rather than a /32.

By: tex

tex — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:29:15 +0000

Vivek Gite says: “Yes, you can trunk two ADSL link with lagg.”

You cant. Link agregation is layer 3. You dont have layer 3 betwen 2 adsl.

By: RepsaJ

RepsaJ — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:45:26 +0000

I have never tried it with a Mac. Altough I found a helpfile on apple.com.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=serveradmin/10.4/en/c3ha3.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24277?viewlocale=en_US
On non-server Mac it is supported to.

By: Dave Abrahams

Dave Abrahams — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:37:05 +0000

Hi, this is great to see. Any idea if there’s something similar for MacOS?

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:14:06 +0000

Brilliant documentation!
Thanks a lot!

By: Aleks

Aleks — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:18:00 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for your tutorial. It really helped me to setup lagg with lacp for my file server.

By: RepsaJ

RepsaJ — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:51:00 +0000

ifconfig_em0="up"
ifconfig_em1="up"
cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport em1"
ipv4_addrs_lagg0="192.168.1.1/24"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.254"

Altough PFSense could be handy. Don't forget some sysadmins would like to have Link Aggregration on their production servers. And then PFSense would require a new server. This trick above you can just use on a production server.

By: Ladd Spencer

Ladd Spencer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:44:12 +0000

Thanks Vivek, pfSense works great.

By: Deskapahendri

Deskapahendri — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:02:55 +0000

thank you for share and info. i can try at adsl link like speedy :D

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:42:52 +0000

Yes, you can trunk two ADSL link with lagg. However, I recommend FreeBSD firewall distribution called pfSense. it has exactly what your talking about built in, and easy to configure. PFSense project Alternatively, read the ng_one2many(4) and ngctl(8) manual page as a good starting point.

By: Ladd Spencer

Ladd Spencer — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:47:52 +0000

Is it possible to use a lagg device to aggregate two ADSL links with static IP addresses? If so, what configuration would be required?

By: Valqk

Valqk — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:52:06 +0000

Oh yes, they are! :)

By: Ashwani

Ashwani — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:01:06 +0000

very good info…but i wonder there are not much of people who r using freeBSD ;-)