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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig Makefile ifconfig.8 iflagg.c
	iftrunk.c src/share/man/man4 Makefile lagg.4 trunk.4
	src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/if_lagg Makefile
	src/sys/modules/if_trunk Makefile src/sys/conf NOTES files ...
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Please note the following change. trunk was only in HEAD for a week so
the few people who tried it out already need to be aware of the name
change.


Andrew

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:35:11AM +0000, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> thompsa     2007-04-17 00:35:11 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/ifconfig        Makefile ifconfig.8 
>     share/man/man4       Makefile 
>     sys/modules          Makefile 
>     sys/conf             NOTES files 
>     sys/sys              priv.h 
>     sys/net              ieee8023ad_lacp.c ieee8023ad_lacp.h if.c 
>                          if_ethersubr.c if_var.h 
>   Added files:
>     sbin/ifconfig        iflagg.c 
>     share/man/man4       lagg.4 
>     sys/modules/if_lagg  Makefile 
>     sys/net              if_lagg.c if_lagg.h 
>   Removed files:
>     sbin/ifconfig        iftrunk.c 
>     share/man/man4       trunk.4 
>     sys/modules/if_trunk Makefile 
>     sys/net              if_trunk.c if_trunk.h 
>   Log:
>   Rename the trunk(4) driver to lagg(4) as it is too similar to vlan trunking.
>   
>   The name trunk is misused as the networking term trunk means carrying multiple
>   VLANs over a single connection. The IEEE standard for link aggregation (802.3
>   section 3) does not talk about 'trunk' at all while it is used throughout IEEE
>   802.1Q in describing vlans.
>   
>   The lagg(4) driver provides link aggregation, failover and fault tolerance.
>   
>   Discussed on:   current@