5 Nov
2001
5 Nov
'01
17:55
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Chris Puttick wrote:
Strictly speaking, trunking is a reference to VLAN capability, based on the telephony concept of a trunk line. The term normally used to describe grouping multiple physical network interfaces as a single logical network interface is channelling (port-, ether-, -aggregation), depending on vendor.
IIRC, "link aggregation" is the name of the relevant IEEE 802 standard. Can't remember the standard number off-hand. Michael