[66795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Wallingford)
Mon Jan 26 01:24:04 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:17:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net>
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: ken emery <ken@cnet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <027701c3e3cd$3885a7b0$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
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:L3 switchiong is just term for idiots - it is ROUTING in old terms. So,
:VLAN's means _routing_.
Um, no, VLAN does not infer routing. 802.1q and even Cisco's ugly
proprietary ISL both operate at layer two.
As to "L3 switching" and the spin involved in such, it's an old,
predictable story, which we all wrote off as marketing drivel at least a
couple years ago...
