Re: VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues

From: Sten Daniel Sørsdal (lists_at_wm-access.no)
Date: 09/12/05

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    Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:50:46 +0200
To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>

    Chuck Swiger wrote:
    > Aaron Glenn wrote:
    >
    >> On 9/10/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>> You cannot truthfully multihome a machine with a single NIC.
    >>
    >>
    >> Why not?
    >
    >
    > Because you cannot put one NIC into two genuinely distinct layer-2
    > collision domains. Spanning Tree Protocol won't recognize a single NIC
    > as a potential connection or loop, depending.
    >

    A vlan should be a seen as a single nic.
    On other platforms, STP considers vlans as independant nics.
    But would it be multihoming if you are just bridging the vlans?
    I thought the essence of multihoming was multiple ip networks to which
    it was a member. 

    -- 
Sten Daniel Sørsdal
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