From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 13 05:12:19 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 6A4AD16A406 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianf@clue.co.za) Received: from munchkin.clue.co.za (munchkin.clue.co.za [66.219.59.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3685413C46C for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianf@clue.co.za) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=20070313; d=clue.co.za; h=Received:Received:Received:To:cc:From:Subject:In-Reply-To:X-Attribution:Date:Message-Id; b=ohylj94SWF/zT7wBn7KeJ3Un4UwvNHl7oEaMtVDjfSoco0+MTGFZyme9YkL3uTDfTNhZkmHT+nV7XD/houKicNfD6/AM04lcj3xMhflRwefW3LOATmHdAx5Pqmg8CvzDxLeAozFzuOihx5xlssWzE4eLooYnTY2pRAYUM5gmKSrPXsf+yahpIuk260nEAJPz/3L//S1eg0fbTplbYN0XY9JtKetGZ2UAtxujlYC9NR7M5spzLRJODoH+HAFUmrVI; Received: from uucp by munchkin.clue.co.za with local (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HcE4y-0006Rn-94; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:12:12 +0000 Received: from cluetoy.clue.co.za ([10.0.0.19] helo=clue.co.za) by urchin.clue.co.za with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HcE4p-0005Y4-Ur; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:12:03 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by clue.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HcE4t-0000HV-2l; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:12:07 +0200 To: Lars Erik Gullerud From: Ian FREISLICH In-Reply-To: Message from Lars Erik Gullerud of "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:16:17 +0200." <20070412215347.X442@electra.nolink.net> X-Attribution: BOFH Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:12:07 +0200 Message-Id: Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:12:19 -0000 Lars Erik Gullerud wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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'm not going to tell you that, I am however going to give you the 802.3ad > (Link Aggregation) explanation. Thanks for that. At least this explains why it can't be done. Ian -- Ian Freislich