On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:21:06PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Unfortunately I'm not sure that the vlan driver can easily layer on > top of trunk, a few tweaks may be required to make it work properly > unless it mirrors if_capabilities from the parent interface (which > isn't clear to me after quickly paging through if_trunk.c).
vlan(4) layers fine on top of trunk(4), I'm using this extensively. > I'm not sure that you are solving the right problem by asking for > redundancy across NICs. You are probably better served by asking for > redundancy across boxes using CARP and PFSYNC and multiple firewalls Redundancy across NICs provides the simplest form of protection against a switch failure (pair of connected switches, 1 nic to each swich)
