CFT: new trunk(4)

[Yuri Lukin]

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).