[c-nsp] VRF-Lite Question

[Phil Mayers]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:17:44AM -0400, Ray Burkholder wrote:

>> 
>> If you can afford 6500s and sup32s in each building then all 
>> fine and well, but you've got more money than I've got.
>
>Nope, not I, although I do day-dream of the day.

Neither me!

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>
>> 
>> No. The 3550/3750s support 802.1q tags and that's it.
>> 
>> To repeat myself: lots of per-VRF L3 point-to-point SVIs and 
>> vlan tagging, lots of routing adjacencies. That's the only 
>> way you'll get this done on 3550/3750s. They're limited platforms.
>> 
>> We have a lot as outlying site routers, and I've done 
>> extensive investigation of how we could least-effort link 
>> them into our shiny 6500 network. The answer is, a lot of typing.
>> 
>
>One more wrinkle.  Some of these interbuilding links are through a
>provider's private vlan system.  No Q.  No Q in Q.  What is the
>recommendation for that?

Ah. Then you've got big problems.