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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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