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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 09:12:01 -0800
PS. How much ethernet ports do you have in the office? Do you have 100 K ports? If not, why do you need 128K MAC's? (I know only one case, when I need so much - some kind of DSL service...I guess you're not into metro networking.
This is one of my exceptions - you really need 128K MAC's for meto network. And, for metro network, it may be reasonable to spend time in QA'ing and configuration and select non-cisco solution - because it is a very big project. But it is exceptional case.
PPS. I do not know for sure, but 3550 should support traffic shaping,
which
makes bufferring. Technically, yes, CEF (with packet dropping) is not
good
to provide 2 Mbit by 100 Mbit link.The 3550 doesnt support shaping of any kind, only policing (dropping packets, never buffer them). How can you advocate a switch which you seem to know so little about?
I just never tried to configure 'traffic-shape' on it, so I do not know. It is great switch for it's niche. Metro LAN's is not standard switch niche, it is very special network. As I said above, non-cisco solution can paid off for this.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?, (continued)
- 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? sthaug (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? Alexei Roudnev (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 Kell (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? ken emery (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 Kell (Jan 25)