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    How to use failover capability of multi port NIC

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      mortem last edited by

      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

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        clarknova last edited by

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

        db

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          mortem last edited by

          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

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            clarknova last edited by

            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.

            db

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              mortem last edited by

              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? :(

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                CaseyBlackburn last edited by

                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)

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