[70713] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dell power connect switches.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri May 21 18:40:50 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405202238320.22964-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:38:03 +0200
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 20-mei-04, at 22:42, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> If you like the management interface of your Dells then they'll most
> likely perform what you need in the pure "shuffle packets"-area as
> long as
> you do IPv4 unicast.
> If you want to muck around with multicast, several vlans perhaps
> leaking
> multicast from one vlan to another, private vlan edge, QoS etc, (mostly
> metro ethernet stuff, for delivering triple play services to
> subscribers),
> then that's a whole other ballgame.
I've been feeding one of those 7 Mbps worth of multicast traffic on and
off for the better part of a year without problems. Not sure if it
snoops, and haven't tried anything else fancy, though.
