From: Stuart Henderson (stuspacehopper.org)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 17:40:06 CDT

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On 2006/08/01 15:23, Tim Pushor wrote:
> Thinking about it more, isn't it carp over trunk over vlan over nic?

The word "trunk" is overloaded.

trunk(4) [the (4) referring to a manual page from section 4]
is likely to be the meaning intended when the word `trunk' is used
on this list, which allows you to run cables from two or more NICs
to one or more switches (with failover/loadbalance etc).

vlan trunking / dot1q trunking (cisco term) just means you have
a bunch of tagged vlans running over one physical interface.

> I agree about the security issue.

In many cases it's not a huge problem, but it's definitely
worth pointing out so you can make an informed decision.

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