Re: CFT: new trunk(4)

From: Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:58:48 -0700
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:23:07 +0200
> From: Massimo Lusetti <massimo_at_cedoc.mo.it>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:09:58 +1200
> Andrew Thompson <thompsa_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Any suggestions!
> 
> Please keep the name trunk(4).

I'll live with whatever, but to most networking (or telecom) folks,
trunking is muxing multiple data streams onto a single media. In
networking, this means multiple VLANs over a single connection.

I have never seen it refer to aggregating several connections to look
like a single one (802.1ad).

But it sounds like someone will be confused by either case, so...
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