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

Sun Jan 25 23:34:59 UTC 2004

Alexei Roudnev wrote:

> 1) Use Cisco 2924 or 3524
> 2) Redesign your network to fit into 1024 VLANs
> 3) Do not spend time with junk (non Cisco, for the switches).
> 
> U1 switch have only 24 - 48 ports, so you never need to handle 2000 VLAN's
> on it. And I suspect, that the whole design is wrong.
> Do not build custom configuration (4000 VLANs), build standard configuration
> (20 - 40 VLANs) /except - if you want to became a QA for the whole vendor/.

I agree, but you could still have 4000 VLANs with multiple VTP domains.
Using 3550-48s you can have L3 links between VTP domains.

Jeff