what about 5000 .. 10000 VLANs in one system?

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:49:04AM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
> On 14-Nov-2003 "."@babolo.ru wrote:
> > 
> > I remember that VLAN tag has 12 bits :-)
> > 
> > I need in system with 5000 .. 10000 VLAN
> > interfaces on 2 .. 6 physical ethernets.
> 
> Er, so what is your strategy for packing 5000-10000 different values
> into a 12-bit field?

2-3 interfaces. :)

or

There are quite a few "double vlan" implementations out there if you're
really that desperate, though I don't think there is a standard so that
they all interoperate. This is mainly used to provision metro ethernet
services where you provide a vlan per customer and they want to be able
to use their own vlans without consulting you for numbering.

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