Configure trunk on a NIC

Hi,
I kind of stuck with this problem.
And I just wante dto know if there is a way to do what i want.
Is there a way to configure trunk on one NIC , the other side will be a cisco switch configure with trunk too??
I want to create on the machine several "vlan interfaces" each for each vlan inside my lab.
Each interface will have a valid IP address.
Can i reach thos address if I will cinfigure trunk on the machine and trunk on the switch???
I hope I wrote my question clearly.
Thanks!

tprizler wrote:
No no no no....
What you have mentioned is aggregation. expanding the link bandwidth using more then one port.
Trunking means , link that can contain 1 or more vlans.In cisco-speak, that's correct. However Sun sold a link-aggregation product as "SunTrunking" for many years (still does), so a great many Solaris admins will use "trunking" as a term for the aggregation concepts.
For example. If i have 2 switches connected to each other via trunk port , they can exchange trafic of several vlans on the same port.
I want to so it when i have switch at one side and a solaris machine on the other..Depends on your hardware and OS. Most interfaces are not 802.1q compliant. What interfaces/hardware do you have?
Most of the solaris docs will reference "VLAN" as a term rather than "trunking". As an example:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4554/fpden?l=en
Darren

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