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

[Brian Wallingford <brian () meganet net>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:

:
:L3 switchiong is just term for idiots - it is ROUTING in old terms. So,
:VLAN's means _routing_.

Um, no, VLAN does not infer routing.  802.1q and even Cisco's ugly
proprietary ISL both operate at layer two.

As to "L3 switching" and the spin involved in such, it's an old,
predictable story, which we all wrote off as marketing drivel at least a
couple years ago...