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| Show First 20 Lines • Show All 3,726 Lines • ▼ Show 20 Lines | <para>For laptop users, it is usually desirable to configure | ||||
| security reasons, while maintaining the ability to transfer | security reasons, while maintaining the ability to transfer | ||||
| data over the wireless connection.</para> | data over the wireless connection.</para> | ||||
| <para>This is achieved by overriding the Ethernet interface's | <para>This is achieved by overriding the Ethernet interface's | ||||
| <acronym>MAC</acronym> address with that of the wireless | <acronym>MAC</acronym> address with that of the wireless | ||||
| interface.</para> | interface.</para> | ||||
| <note> | <note> | ||||
| <para>In theory, either the Ethernet or wireless MAC address can | <para>In theory, either the Ethernet or wireless MAC address | ||||
| be changed to match the other. However, some popular wireless | can be changed to match the other. However, some popular | ||||
| interfaces lack support for overriding the MAC address. We | wireless interfaces lack support for overriding the MAC | ||||
| therefore recommend overriding the Ethernet MAC address for this | address. We therefore recommend overriding the Ethernet | ||||
| purpose.</para> | MAC address for this purpose.</para> | ||||
| </note> | |||||
| <note> | |||||
| <para>If the driver for the wireless interface is not loaded | |||||
| in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> or custom kernel, | |||||
| and the computer is running &os; &rel121.current;, | |||||
| load the corresponding <filename>.ko</filename> in | |||||
| <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> by adding | |||||
| <userinput><replaceable>driver</replaceable>_load="YES"</userinput> | |||||
| to that file and rebooting. Another, better way is to | |||||
| load the driver in <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> by | |||||
| adding it to <varname>kld_list</varname> (see | |||||
| &man.rc.conf.5; for details) in that file and rebooting. | |||||
| This is needed because otherwise the driver is not loaded | |||||
| yet at the time the &man.lagg.4; interface is set | |||||
| up.</para> | |||||
| </note> | </note> | ||||
| <para>In this example, the Ethernet interface, | <para>In this example, the Ethernet interface, | ||||
| <replaceable>re0</replaceable>, is the master and the | <replaceable>re0</replaceable>, is the master and the | ||||
| wireless interface, <replaceable>wlan0</replaceable>, is | wireless interface, <replaceable>wlan0</replaceable>, is | ||||
| the failover. The <replaceable>wlan0</replaceable> | the failover. The <replaceable>wlan0</replaceable> | ||||
| interface was created from the | interface was created from the | ||||
| <replaceable>ath0</replaceable> physical wireless interface, | <replaceable>ath0</replaceable> physical wireless interface, | ||||
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