Re: CFT: new trunk(4)

From: Yuri Lukin <lists_at_swaggi.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:40:05 -0400
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). 
Received on Thu Apr 12 2007 - 00:25:58 UTC

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