Hi, On 13/05/2020 13:10, mabi wrote:
> I am currently running OpenBSD 6.5 as firewall with two ix interfaces inside > a trunk interface with LACP protocol. On top of that I have a few vlan > interfaces so it's basically (ix -> trunk -> vlan). > > Now I saw that OpenBSD has a new interface specifically for LACP which is > called aggr. As I will soon be upgrading to OpenBSD 6.6 I was wondering if it > is the right time to switch from trunk to the new aggr interface? More details are at: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=156229058006706&w=2 > From what I understand the new aggr interface has mainly 2 advantages: it is > multi-processor safe and it should be faster than the tun interface. Is this > correct? Assuming you mean trunk, not tun, yes. > And last point because aggr is pretty new, is it already safe to use it for a > production firewall? I don't see mention of any aggr fixes in the 6.7 changelog, so I guess it didn't have any disasters in it. Others are using it on production systems. Thanks, Iain. -- https://hambsd.org/
