[c-nsp] Scaling L2

[Peter Serwe]

You need something bigger/better to aggregate on.

Peter

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:12 PM, T Johnson <tjohnson46 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a virtualization environment that is quickly growing and I tend
> to use "smaller" catalyst 2xxx and 3xxx series switches. One problem I
> see coming up is running out of MAC address table space on these
> switches as well as tons of L2 broadcast traffic.
>
> My question is this: does cisco have a way to deal with this when
> you'd want to keep things in one L2 domain (rather than
> forcing L3 boundaries)? I see the TRILL/fabricpath stuff, but of
> course it only runs on switches I don't have the budget for.
>
> Dreaming up things... it would seem fairly easy if I could just
> "route" sets of MAC addresses out to different connected switches.
> It's fairly easy to assign MAC addresses on the server side to help support
> this. Anything like this possible? Or another solution?
>
> Thanks
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