[66789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ken emery)
Sun Jan 25 19:39:42 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:39:06 -0800 (PST)
From: ken emery <ken@cnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040125234142.GM58055@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:
> * jeff-kell@utc.edu (Jeff Kell) [Mon 26 Jan 2004, 00:35 CET]:
> > Using 3550-48s you can have L3 links between VTP domains.
>
> The point of using VLANs is that you don't need to route. There's
> probably a good reason for switching instead of routing in the original
> poster's scenario. (Perhaps a FTTH-like project?)
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but at some point you will have to route
all those VLAN's. To really answer the question about wether > 1000
VLAN's are necessary one would need to see the network design.
From my point of view I'd have to question the need to carry that many
VLAN's over a large portion of the network. I would think that the
network should be more partitioned so most of the VLAN's don't need to
be seen outside a small area.
bye,
ken emery
