> > LOL. We have been testing this (bonding *and* vlans). > > Once you understand how it works it makes sense, but you need to > understand it first and most people researching this are probably used > to the fantastic vmware tooling that keeps it all hidden. > > > One of the environments I built a year or so back needed this - 8 interfaces in LACP bonds per system with around 10-12 VLANs (( forget specifically) on top of this and then bridged through to VMs ... As you say - take it one layer at a time and it's simple enough... but demoing the setup to people initially left them a little lost following the various config files.