[nsp] GE aggregation for last mile Ethernet

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:

> Sounds pretty cool, inexpensive, simple to manage/operate,
> and scalable. Is there any way to do this with Cisco?

You should search for "private vlan" and "private vlan edge" on 
www.cisco.com and see if this may work for you. It has some constraints 
but with careful thought it will enable you to use 3550 and 6500 together 
to (probably) achieve what's requested.

Otherwise you might want to look into RFC3069 and use Extreme Networks 
boxen for the L3 routing. It will only do 4000 vlans per box, but you can 
use a $4-5k unit to do this (all their i-chipset boxen supports it).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se