[c-nsp] pvlans and scalability

Christian Koch christian at visr.org
Fri Mar 14 11:57:35 EDT 2008


etherchannels are not supported with PVLN's, if im correct?

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Jimmy Stewpot <squid at oranged.to> wrote:

> 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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