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Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:00:05 +0100
* jsw () five-elements com (Jeff S Wheeler) [Sun 25 Jan 2004, 22:10 CET]:
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 14:44, Will Hargrave wrote:I would check the Foundry Fastiron series - maybe the 4802. Everything I've read appears to indicate they support all 4096 vlans simultaneously, although you will of course want to verify this.I don't think this is true. Those of you with BigIron units know that (at least in m3 supervisors) they support only 512 vlans at most. I do not think the older, and generally less capable, FastIron switches are likely to support more. The command to check this on BigIron is `show default values`.
That indicates a maximum of 4095 on a recent switch here that runs the layer-2 only image. Older models appear to have a limit of 2048, but I can't tell for sure whether this is hardware or software related. Configurability is, of course, no guarantee for things to actually work. -- Niels.
Current thread:
- Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? sthaug (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Will Hargrave (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Jeff S Wheeler (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Niels Bakker (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Jeff S Wheeler (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Joel Jaeggli (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Alexei Roudnev (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Alexei Roudnev (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 25)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Alexei Roudnev (Jan 26)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 26)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Alexei Roudnev (Jan 26)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? sthaug (Jan 26)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Randy Bush (Jan 26)
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs? Alexei Roudnev (Jan 25)