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


From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:06:32 -0800


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.



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