[c-nsp] pvlans and scalability

Jimmy Stewpot squid at oranged.to
Fri Mar 14 08:19:43 EDT 2008


Hi,

Would it be possible to have a promisc 10GbE port connected to switch 
then have that switch as flat layer 2 device with Etherchannel to the 
servers there?

Regards,

Jimmy

Jimmy Stewpot wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am wondering what peoples experience is with pvlans. We currently have 
> a large pvlan deployment for our backup network, we have our backup 
> servers on promisc ports and everything else is isolated. The problem we 
> have is that the servers do not have support for 10GbE cards (PCI-X only 
>   Sun boxes) and we are unable to use Etherchannel due to an asic 
> limitation. Can anyone give me some advice or experience they have had 
> in scaling with this type of situation?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim
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