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LAGG(4)			 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		       LAGG(4)

NAME
     lagg — link aggregation and link failover interface

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your
     kernel configuration file:

	   device lagg

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
     following line in loader.conf(5):

	   if_lagg_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The lagg interface allows aggregation of multiple network interfaces as
     one virtual lagg interface for the purpose of providing fault-tolerance
     and high-speed links.

     A lagg interface can be created using the ifconfig laggN create command.
     It can use different link aggregation protocols specified using the
     laggproto proto option.  Child interfaces can be added using the laggport
     child-iface option and removed using the -laggport child-iface option.

     The driver currently supports the aggregation protocols failover (the
     default), fec, lacp, loadbalance, roundrobin, and none.  The protocols
     determine which ports are used for outgoing traffic and whether a spe‐
     cific port accepts incoming traffic.  The interface link state is used to
     validate if the port is active or not.

     failover	  Sends traffic only through the active port.  If the master
		  port becomes unavailable, the next active port is used.  The
		  first interface added is the master port; any interfaces
		  added after that are used as failover devices.

		  By default, received traffic is only accepted when they are
		  received through the active port.  This constraint can be
		  relaxed by setting the net.link.lagg.failover_rx_all
		  sysctl(8) variable to a nonzero value, which is useful for
		  certain bridged network setups.

     fec	  Supports Cisco EtherChannel.	This is a static setup and
		  does not negotiate aggregation with the peer or exchange
		  frames to monitor the link.

     lacp	  Supports the IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
		  (LACP) and the Marker Protocol.  LACP will negotiate a set
		  of aggregable links with the peer in to one or more Link
		  Aggregated Groups.  Each LAG is composed of ports of the
		  same speed, set to full-duplex operation.  The traffic will
		  be balanced across the ports in the LAG with the greatest
		  total speed, in most cases there will only be one LAG which
		  contains all ports.  In the event of changes in physical
		  connectivity, Link Aggregation will quickly converge to a
		  new configuration.

     loadbalance  Balances outgoing traffic across the active ports based on
		  hashed protocol header information and accepts incoming
		  traffic from any active port.	 This is a static setup and
		  does not negotiate aggregation with the peer or exchange
		  frames to monitor the link.  The hash includes the Ethernet
		  source and destination address, and, if available, the VLAN
		  tag, and the IP source and destination address.

     roundrobin	  Distributes outgoing traffic using a round-robin scheduler
		  through all active ports and accepts incoming traffic from
		  any active port.

     none	  This protocol is intended to do nothing: it disables any
		  traffic without disabling the lagg interface itself.

     Each lagg interface is created at runtime using interface cloning.	 This
     is most easily done with the ifconfig(8) create command or using the
     cloned_interfaces variable in rc.conf(5).

     The MTU of the first interface to be added is used as the lagg MTU.  All
     additional interfaces are required to have exactly the same value.

EXAMPLES
     Create a 802.3ad link aggregation using LACP with two bge(4) Gigabit Eth‐
     ernet interfaces:

	   # ifconfig bge0 up
	   # ifconfig bge1 up
	   # ifconfig lagg0 laggproto lacp laggport bge0 laggport bge1 \
		   192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

     The following example uses an active failover interface to set up roaming
     between wired and wireless networks using two network devices.  Whenever
     the wired master interface is unplugged, the wireless failover device
     will be used:

	   # ifconfig em0 up
	   # ifconfig ath0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
	   # ifconfig create wlan0 wlandev ath0 ssid my_net up
	   # ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 \
		   192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

     (Note the mac address of the wireless device is forced to match the wired
     device as a workaround.)

SEE ALSO
     ng_fec(4), ng_one2many(4), sysctl(8), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY
     The lagg device first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3.

AUTHORS
     The lagg driver was written under the name trunk by Reyk Floeter
     ⟨reyk@openbsd.org⟩.  The LACP implementation was written by YAMAMOTO
     Takashi for NetBSD.

BUGS
     There is no way to configure LACP administrative variables, including
     system and port priorities.  The current implementation always performs
     active-mode LACP and uses 0x8000 as system and port priorities.

BSD			       October 18, 2010				   BSD
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