Yeap, Another conflict between Sun Microsystems and Cisco.

What Cisco calls Channeling, Sun calls Trunking.

    http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/suntrunking/

Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     0n Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Clem Kruger (C) wrote: 
>
>     >It is better to combine a number of 100MB cards using CISCO trunking,
>     >increasing the pipe size in that way.
>
> Trunking is a method used to carry traffic for multpile VLANS over a single
> physical link. Aggregation (aka port channeling or etherchannel) is combining
> multiple physical interfacess to increase bandwidth.
>
>  -aW
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