Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

[ken emery <ken () cnet com>]

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