[AusNOG] Running out of VLANs

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Dec 16, 2013, at 10:20 AM, James Mcintosh <james.mcintosh at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> What are people doing about hitting switch VLAN limits? We terminate a lot of Ethernet services from several carriers. Our Cisco switch gear is great but limited to 128 spanning tree VLAN sessions and 1,000 VLANs.

<http://blog.ine.com/2010/02/22/understanding-mstp/>

Per what other folks have said, you really need to move to a higher-end platform.  There are all kinds of performance and functionality reasons to move to something like a 6500 with Sup2T.

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