[66796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Jan 26 01:52:58 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:52:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040126001827.GI5365@microserf>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Will Hargrave wrote:
> I'd be very interested to hear what conditions you've found cause
> problems for Cat3550s. We're planning to buy quite a few more of this range
> (probably 3750-24) to reduce L2 size in our network and for CPE-type
> uses.
Well, we're not really sure. We put it in front of a 7200 doing approx 50
megabits of data with 50% cpu load, to divert the internet traffic and
make the 7200 handle only MPLS PE functionality. The 3550 had only 3 SVIs.
It might be broadcast related, we had a lot of L2 broadcasts on that
segment.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
