Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:12:07 +0200 From: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> To: Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik@nolink.net> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new trunk(4) Message-ID: <E1HcE4t-0000HV-2l@clue.co.za> In-Reply-To: Message from Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik@nolink.net> of "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:16:17 %2B0200." <20070412215347.X442@electra.nolink.net>
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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
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