This is a followup to what I asked in the LACP thread yesterday, broken out as it wasn't really the point there.
I have a FreeNAS box with two NICs, and no serial port, keyboard/monitor, or other way of accessing it currently configured. My main, and only current, connection is on eth0 set to a static 192.168.1.10. I'd like to add igb0 as a failover, using the same IP address as the interface, as this is how the rest of the network expects to find the box. (Though I was successfully talked out of it, I'm also curious about setting up the two NICs as an LACP aggregation.)
The docs warn that before creating a link aggregation, you should be careful about changing the network interface used by the web interface. But they don't say how to get around this. What's the right way to set this up? Going through the motions, I see that I can add a lagg0 interface, specify the protocol (LACP, failover, etc.), associate both NICs, and specify an IP address. What will happen if I specify the same address as eth0 is currently on (which is what I ultimately want)? Or if I give another address, will the original be inaccessible?
I don't want to create lagg0 and then find myself kicked offline with no way to connect until I finish a procedure that I can no longer finish.
I have a FreeNAS box with two NICs, and no serial port, keyboard/monitor, or other way of accessing it currently configured. My main, and only current, connection is on eth0 set to a static 192.168.1.10. I'd like to add igb0 as a failover, using the same IP address as the interface, as this is how the rest of the network expects to find the box. (Though I was successfully talked out of it, I'm also curious about setting up the two NICs as an LACP aggregation.)
The docs warn that before creating a link aggregation, you should be careful about changing the network interface used by the web interface. But they don't say how to get around this. What's the right way to set this up? Going through the motions, I see that I can add a lagg0 interface, specify the protocol (LACP, failover, etc.), associate both NICs, and specify an IP address. What will happen if I specify the same address as eth0 is currently on (which is what I ultimately want)? Or if I give another address, will the original be inaccessible?
I don't want to create lagg0 and then find myself kicked offline with no way to connect until I finish a procedure that I can no longer finish.