> 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... -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman_at_es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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