CFT: new trunk(4)
Peter Jeremy
peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Thu Apr 12 07:11:32 UTC 2007
On 2007-Apr-11 23:27:18 +0200, Arne Schwabe <schwabe at uni-paderborn.de> 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.
>>
>Cisco calls this Trunk (multiple vlans over one physical connection
>(with dot1q)). Combining multiple physical links is called channel.
>Maybe that is were the confusion comes from.
Mea cupla. I knew that - maybe I should do a better job of getting
the brain into gear before responding. I'll justify my incorrect
terminology by claiming that it seemed consistent with the usage
implied by the original poster.
>>At least some of the proprietary protocols
>>are fairly dumb and just round-robin MAC addresses between the
>>physical links rather than dynamically sharing traffic across the
>>available links. The former means that if most or all of your traffic
>>is for a single MAC address, you don't actually gain anything by
>>having multiple physical links.
>
>I have seen things break if you do real round robin,
To clarify, my reference to "round-robin" may have been unclear. The
equipment I've seen will assign a MAC address to a physical port as
part of the MAC learning process. All traffic to that MAC address is
then forwarded via that port.
> some pxe boot stuff
>and other embedded tcp/ip stack which are intended for local network use
>only don't like if packets are out of order,
I believe that the Ethernet standard requires in-order delivery. This
makes real dynamic traffic sharing non-trivial. The round-robin port
assignment ensures in-order delivery and will probably achieve
reasonable load balancing if traffic is distributed across a number
of MAC addresses.
--
Peter Jeremy
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