Thanks to all of those who have replied. I have gathered quite a bit of research info and now I just need to decide what I'm goging to do moving forward. I will try to post my notes here on this list once I do begin implementation. -eric maynard On 1/6/06, william(at)elan.net <william@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, George Ross wrote: > > >> Some HP procurves only support 30 VLANS tagged from 0-30. Silly but true. > > > > Not quite true. Some switches limit you to 30 VLANs, but anything vaguely > > recent will allow the full range of tags to be used. > > Such switches are typically limited only as to what you can assign on the > switch itself, i.e. what number or VLAN you can assign to particular port > and this limit is forced in the software image just so that customers buy > different model of the switch if you need more VLANs. > > But if the switch is used just for transmitting data in larger network > and is 802.1Q capable, it'd transit data for a lot more VLANs through > the trunk ports. > > > Note, btw, that some have one forwarding table per switch while others > > have separate ones for each VLAN. > > Newer designs have forwarding table where target is listed as not just > MAC but VLAN+MAC and that is what is used for building hash table and > so lookups are quite fast. Having multiple forwarding tables is in fact > not a feature that ads any significant value. > > > The old version of the wireless access point firmware did have some odd > > VLAN restrictions, so we didn't ever use them there. The latest firmware > > does things sanely. > > Its also common for <$100 priced consumer wlan router to support only > /24 net for local lan. This is similarly well known as forced limit for > purposes of having businesses buy "access point router". This is absurd > as it makes a notion that such residential-use targeted wlan router is > not AP where is the difference is purely in the limitations placed in the > software image and hardware is most often the same for what is sold at > significantly higher price as "wireless access point". > > -- > William Leibzon > Elan Networks > william@xxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Vlan mailing list > Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.lanforge.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan >
