Talk:Channel bonding

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Merger[edit]

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The result of this discussion was to no consensus and technical close due to duplicate merge proposal of MLT to the more likely target Link aggregation Widefox (talk) 07:21, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Of MLT and Channel bonding:

Oppose 0. no case has been made 1. Channel bonding is general concept not a specific technology 2. keep proprietary MLT and standards based separate (same as EtherChannel). Widefox (talk) 06:45, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger into Link Aggregation[edit]

The following note appears at the top of the Link Aggregation article : It has been suggested that Channel bonding be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2016.

I believe this is a bad idea, because as someone has already pointed out, channel bonding is a generic term that applies to ISDN and DOCSIS in addition to Ethernet connections. In fact, I will modify the introduction to this article to clarify the wide applicability of the term.Humevance (talk) 14:16, 5 May 2017 (UTC)Humevance[reply]

ISDN and DOCSIS are also link layer technologies and the phrase 'Link aggregation' is not specific to any particular media/link type. On the contrary, as link aggregation clearly states, the term 'link aggregation' and other umbrella terms (including 'channel bonding') are not specific to any particular link layer technology. While LACP has popularized the phrase 'link aggregation', and de-facto made marketing terms like 'channel bonding' etc superfluous, the IEEE certainly didn't coin those words.

Also, the notion that 'channel bonding' is somehow more generic than anything else does not wash in the real world. What BSD calls 'lagg', Linux calls 'bonding', and Microsoft calls 'teaming'. Three different terms for the same functionality, and yet one is called 'bonding' while another is short for 'link aggregation'. Both BSD and Linux drivers are independent of media/link type. The BSD 'lagg' driver can even failover to different media (dsl to mobile to isdn/pots for example). -- 178.250.166.134 (talk) 10:43, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I have reviewed the content and don't see an issue with combining these articles and I think the resulting merged article would be better than either of the existing articles. ~Kvng (talk) 21:03, 4 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 09:15, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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