On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:50:17PM +0200, Matthias Bertschy wrote: > > > > > >if trunk(4) can handle other types of ifs besides network interfaces, > > >the man page is wrong. i've never tried, but "network interface" seems > > >pretty clear... > > > > > >jmc > > You must be right. > > > > But anyway, having a possibility to trunk(4) with virtual interfaces > > might be very useful to load > > balance/fail over multiple VPN links or tunnels. > > I would definitely find good uses of it. > > > > Is it hard to implement a pseudo device like trunk(4) working with > > virtual interfaces? > > > > actually i'm quite likely wrong (as usual). i'm not sure whether > "network interfaces" covers pseudo-ifs like gif, pppoe, ...reyk? > > as to how to implemement these things, i'm not even gonna attempt an > answer. >
trunk(4) works only over ethernet devices (more precisely IEEE802 based interfaces). This includes wireless devices but neither of gif, gre or pppoe. tun(4) in layer 2 mode works while a "normal" tun(4) will not. -- :wq Claudio
