From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 12 21:47:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A4516A403 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@totalterror.net) Received: from sellinet.net (galileo.sellinet.net [82.199.192.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5AD213C469 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:47:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@totalterror.net) Received: (qmail 17988 invoked by uid 1009); 13 Apr 2007 00:20:17 +0300 Received: from ndenev@totalterror.net by galileo by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 3.0.3. Clear:RC:1(82.199.197.152):. Processed in 0.490895 secs); 12 Apr 2007 21:20:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ndenev.totalterror.net) (82.199.197.152) by galileo.sellinet.net with SMTP; 13 Apr 2007 00:20:17 +0300 Received: (qmail 85141 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2007 00:20:17 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by ndenev.totalterror.net with SMTP; 13 Apr 2007 00:20:17 +0300 Message-ID: <461EA291.5000403@totalterror.net> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:20:17 +0300 From: Niki Denev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20070411191450.GE815@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070412210957.GA31864@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20070412210957.GA31864@heff.fud.org.nz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 OpenPGP: id=F2DB7EB9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:53:09 +0000 Subject: Re: CFT: new trunk(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:47:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:39:00AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: >> Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> On 2007-Apr-11 15:43:04 +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: >>>> Andrew Thompson wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:17:29AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: >>>>>> We're making extensive use of vlans to increase the number of >>>>>> interfaces availabble to us using switches to break out gigE into >>>>>> 100M interfaces. The bandwidth problem we're having is to our >>>>>> provider, a 100M connection, and we're looking at doing exactly >>>>>> this. However, it appears that this interface can't trunk vlan >>>>>> interfaces. >>> =2E.. >>>> No, I'm sure I want it the way I said. I know it sounds wrong, but >>>> I just don't have enough PCI-X slots to waste 2 on physical 100M >>>> NICs for the uplink from the routers. >>> 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. >> 802.1q is VLAN tagging and trunking. This interface is LACP - link >> aggregation. I really think that it makes no sense to be able to >> aggregate some ethernet interfaces and not others. I suppose some >> pedant will tell me vlan interfaces are not ethernet. > > I think the unfortunate name of trunk(4) that we inherited from OpenBSD > is causing quite some confusion. trunk(4) actually has nothing to do > with vlan trunking which I think you are after. > > I can see this topic coming up again so it could save some time to > rename the driver now. It would mean that we lose the naming link to the > same driver in OpenBSD but you cant win em all. > > Some names that have been suggested are: > > linkag(4) > agr(4) > bond(4) <- same as linux > > Any suggestions! > > > Andrew One vote for agr(4) :) Niki -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHqKRHNAJ/fLbfrkRAl/MAKCuFekfn3cn/UXRlylBsNDiUTijQACfct/M abfGQm1x9Uc6LdobSTifJe8= =S6pO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----