How to use failover capability of multi port NIC

mortem · Jun 30, 2010, 3:38 PM

Hi,

Does pfSense can see multiple physical interface (from a dual port NIC) as if it was only one (to have a failover on the Lan side)?

Thank you

clarknova · Jun 30, 2010, 4:14 PM

I think you want to create a LAGG interface. Try /interfaces_lagg.php

mortem · Jul 1, 2010, 1:47 AM

Hi,

To be more specific, I wish to do some etherchannel with Cisco switches or if etherchannel is not possible, at least some failover betzeen the 2 ports of a same interface.
What do you mean with the /interface_lagg.php?
How cwn I connect it as I don't find this in my pfSense test server

Thank you

PM

clarknova · Jul 1, 2010, 2:33 AM

Oops, sorry, I thought I was on the 2.0 board when I replied to you. The page I referred to is used on 2.0 to aggregate links, much like Cisco etherchannel. 2.0 has some outstanding issues, but it has met my needs for the past month. I don't know of any way to do this in pfsense 1.2, certainly not in the web UI.

mortem · Jul 1, 2010, 8:42 AM

I didn't try yet the 2.0
but it is not in my 1.2.3 version, unfortunately
So, no etherchannel for this version? :(

CaseyBlackburn · Jul 1, 2010, 3:53 PM

You can probably try setting up the Lagg/Etherchannel stuff manually in FreeBSD. You won't have the pretty GUI to manage it, but take a look at the following article from the FreeBSD Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html

(Just in case you didn't know, pfSense is FreeBSD)