From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 04:24:34 GMT-3
At 11:27 PM 1/14/2004, Mike Williams wrote:
>In the production network, we have 2950s that support up to 250 VLANs.
>But they only support 64 separate VLANs running individual instance of
>Spanning Tree....... So my question is what happens when you add that
>65th VLAN? I partially know the answer is that you will see in the
>config where it says "no spanning-tree vlan <blah>" where <blah> is the
># of the VLAN (or VLANs) over 64. But how do the rest of the switches
>handle this? Do the switches toward the root treat this switch as an
>end-device from a STP perspective?!?!?
>
>Any input is appreciated........ just wondering how to plan and what to
>do to make sure nothing breaks now that we've passed 64 (actually 68)
>VLANs on the network........
Never messed with it, but more than likely STP state is shared between
VLANS beyond 64. Which one they share is a good question, and can you
group them strategy another.
>
>Thanks!
>Mike W.
>
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