Bonding interface with FreeBSD > 6.2

When you are using a Network TAP (e.g. NetOptics), and want to bond the interfaces on a FreeBSD, then you have a new way to do this.

Since FreeBSD 6.3 they have introduced a new device called lagg(4). Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface.

With lagg you can easily bond two interfaces together.

# ifconfig lagg0 create
# ifconfig lagg0 laggproto fec laggport bge0 laggport bge1 monitor up

Default it uses failover protocol, which you don’t want to use when bonding interfaces. The best protocol for this would be Cisco EtherChannel.

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By Robin Gruyters on March 11, 2008 2:40 PM | | Comments (0)

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