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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:45:20 +0100
From:      Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>, brooks@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFT: new trunk(4)
Message-ID:  <461FCFC0.6050109@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <461FB498.4030407@freebsd.org>
References:  <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>	<20070411191450.GE815@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>	<E1Hbs1M-000FWA-7Z@clue.co.za>	<20070412210957.GA31864@heff.fud.org.nz> <461FB498.4030407@freebsd.org>

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Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:39:00AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>>

<snip>

>> 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!
> 
> lacp(4)++
> 
Or fec(4) since this provides the same (and greater) fucntionality as
ng_fec(4)
(or for that matter at this rate we could call it bikeshed(4) ;)

Vince



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