Two WAN ports comingout as uplink, I need to trunk them, h..

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In article <1107497530.185859.85700@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<santa19992000@yahoo.com> wrote:
:I am looking exact definition of trunk?. I have twop WAN ports coming
ut, I need to make those two as trunk, how can I do that?. any idea?.

Tell us the model and software release and we'll [probably] find the
commands for you.

A trunk, generally speaking, is any link in which the VLAN tags are
transmitted as part of the data. A non-trunk, sometimes called an
"access port" is a link in which the VLAN tags are stripped before
transmission, and which does not expect VLAN tags to be received.
Trunks are -usually- used for links between data infrastructure
[such as routers and switches and firewalls], but these days more
and more servers and general operating systems are enabling trunking
functionality, so it is entirely possible to have a trunk which connects
to a computer instead of to a switch/router.

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