RE: 10G ethernet and 802.1q

I went to a Cisco event yesterday and one of the presenters mentioned TRILL
https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/message/2747 thought it was
interesting...

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Shahid Ansari
Sent: Wednesday, 1 April 2009 4:54 PM
To: Hash Aminu
Cc: Reza Toghraee; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: 10G ethernet and 802.1q

Hash,

worked with ISP and havent used ISL ,dot1q is best to go(q in q tunnel)
1q also a standard across different vendors and guaranteed to work between
different vendor equipments whereas ISL fails :)
regarding the VLANS ,who want to create more than 1K/4k Vlans?

Thanks
Shahid

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Hash Aminu <hashng_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Reza/Shahid,
>
> while i will agree with you that most of them are implying to cisco
> solution, I am aware of using 802.1q in cisco Gears can be less scalable
as
> the # of VLANs grows..hence you will run out of virtual ports (total # of
> Vlans passing thru a .1q trunk X the number of ports)..mostly the limits
is
> 6k per any line card.
>
> HTH
>
> Hash

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Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 18:57:29 ART