On 2020-11-16, Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> wrote: >> bridge(4), and add a vether ... > > Reading thru man pages I see there are other options: switch, aggr, trunk, > etc.
aggr and trunk are for combining two or more ports into a single uplink (aggr only for LACP, trunk for various methods). Rither used to get more capacity or to provide failover. bridge (and theoretically switch but I never got it to do anything useful) make a group of ports act like a network switch (maybe with filtering between the ports). > I barely understand these, since IP is an ugly business. These are closer to thw erhernet layer, IP is a separatr layer that runs "on top" of this layer.
