[66812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Mon Jan 26 12:06:46 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Peter J Hill" <phill@andrew.cmu.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:06:32 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
ISL _DOES NOT CHANGE_ packet size.
> Is it April 1st? ISL changes the size of packets, does it not? So know
> you have to deal with MTU issues. What happens when I want the biggest
> MTU possible? I know it is not much a difference in size, but for some
> people, size does matter.
>
> I am quite happy with dot1q. My gripe is with poor spanning-tree
> > 2) Of course, VLAN does not infer routing. But VLAN routing can be
> > provided
> > on the switch fabric, effectively bypassing many traditional drawbacks
> > - see
> > Cisco 6509, for example.
>
> Are you talking about multilayer switching implementations? That is why
> C came out with dCEF. I costs, but if you want to do serious routing,
> damn if it ain't fast ;-)
Agree in general.
