How to set up LACP link aggregation with a HP 1810-8G v2 switch and FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE

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Set up LACP on the switch
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1) Log into the switch management interface (by default at http://192.168.2.10/).
2) Navigate to Trunks > Trunk Configuration
3) Set up a new trunk by giving it a name, choosing "LACP Active" mode and the ports you'd like to aggregate. Click "Apply".

FreeBSD setup
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See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html

1) Bring up the individual interfaces and create the lagg(4) interface. Then bring it up with the IP address 10.0.1.250/24:

# ifconfig igb0 up
# ifconfig igb1 up
# ifconfig lagg0 create
# ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto lacp laggport igb0 laggport igb1 10.0.1.250/24

2) Verify the status of the interfaces:

# ifconfig
igb0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether bc:5f:f4:fd:aa:6b
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
igb1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether bc:5f:f4:fd:aa:6b
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether bc:5f:f4:fd:aa:6b
        inet 10.0.1.250 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        laggproto lacp lagghash l2,l3,l4
        laggport: igb1 flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>
        laggport: igb0 flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>

3) To configure the virtual interface at boot time, add the following to /etc/rc.conf:

# cat << EOF >> /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_igb0="up"
ifconfig_igb1="up"
cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport igb0 laggport igb1 10.0.1.250/24"
EOF