Based on the feedback below, we might need to include a glossary of some sort, or at least expanded explanations, to clarify differences in our use of terms. With some guidance from the team, I can put the information together.
The definitions/explanations can be placed in our current Network Link Names documentation (aka Vanity Naming). Or, it can go into that general introduction in the book where the Clearview information will eventually land. -------- Original Message -------- > After being corrected in some of the places where I used the term > "interface" instead of the more accurate term "link", I realize I don't > know what the difference is. > > From the corrections made yesterday, it seems like > 1) Links are aggregated to create a Link Aggegation (e.g. in Jurassic, > that means bge0, bge1, etc can be referred to as links since they are > aggegated) > > 2) VLAN runs on top of link (such as vlan1.. vlan9 of jurassic running > atop of aggregations, which means an aggregation can be referred to as a > link. VLANs also run atop devices, if i'm right, which also means bge0, > bge1, etc are also links) > > 3) IPMPs are interfaces. Not sure what it is made up of .. links? > interfaces? both? > > 4) If a device isn't associated with an IPMP, VLAN, IPMP, or Tunnel(?) > can the device, i.e. bge0, be referred to as an interface? And is it > still valid to call it a link too? > -------- Original Message -------- > It's the use of the term "link" for the kitchen sink of interfaces, > interface groups, anything interface that Ann (and I) find very > confusing. The big issue for me is that the term link > seems to be used for a family of items that until now were called by > individual terms: devices, device names, IPMP groups, VLANs, link > aggregations, tunnels, and possibly more. That they are now called links > might be technically correct. But PPP also establishes links. And PPP > links couldn't be further from anything I just mentioned with the > possible exception of tunnels, which also establish a point-to-point > connection.
