[66786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Sun Jan 25 18:35:51 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:34:59 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, sthaug@nethelp.no,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01f601c3e380$41d47eb0$6401a8c0@alexh>
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Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> 1) Use Cisco 2924 or 3524
> 2) Redesign your network to fit into 1024 VLANs
> 3) Do not spend time with junk (non Cisco, for the switches).
>
> U1 switch have only 24 - 48 ports, so you never need to handle 2000 VLAN's
> on it. And I suspect, that the whole design is wrong.
> Do not build custom configuration (4000 VLANs), build standard configuration
> (20 - 40 VLANs) /except - if you want to became a QA for the whole vendor/.
I agree, but you could still have 4000 VLANs with multiple VTP domains.
Using 3550-48s you can have L3 links between VTP domains.
Jeff
