Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:40:05 -0400 From: "Yuri Lukin" <lists@swaggi.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new trunk(4) Message-ID: <20070412013738.M10135@swaggi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070411191450.GE815@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070402092830.GB28809@heff.fud.org.nz> <E1Hbd6G-0000LG-MX@clue.co.za> <20070411191450.GE815@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:14:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote > Trunking is a way of combining multiple physical interfaces to increase > the bandwidth. Trunking multiple VLANs on a single interface doesn't > make sense to me. > As another poster has already mentioned, trunking is a way of carrying traffic for multiple VLANs over a single physical link. Whereas, combining multiple physical interfaces to increase bandwidth is known as link aggregation, port channeling or etherchannel (depending on which vendor you use).
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