[j-nsp] NS-50

[Sven Juergensen (KielNET)]

> What irks me is that you can't use an arbitrary subinterface
> number, so you can only match VLANs below 151.  How crude.

I second that. Any devs reading this list?
Please fix that ;)

Cheers,

Sven

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Peter E. Fry wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gabriel" <gabriel at teksavvy.com>
> To: <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Subject: [j-nsp] NS-50
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:38:14 -0400
> 
>> We are just starting to configure VLANs on one of the
>> interfaces of our Netscreen and realised that it's limited
>> to only 16 Sub-IF per physical interface. Is there anyway
>> arround this? Why would this be limited to only 16? It
>> seems to be more like a software limitation than anything
>> else.
> 
>   Most likely.  Some Ethernet devices may have their own
> limitations, but as I recall from my Linux days, no
> commodity Ethernet MAC does any VLAN processing in hardware.
>   The SSG 550 has subinterface limitations as well, but it's
> more in the range of a hundred or two (looking... 150). 
> What irks me is that you can't use an arbitrary subinterface
> number, so you can only match VLANs below 151.  How crude.
>   As far as the limitation itself -- an arbitrary limitation
> is more likely to drive a customer to another vendor or
> solution, rather than to an upgrade.  I'll bet you have a
> problem that fits the NS50 bandwidth, policy, and session
> limitations, but requires more VLANs, eh?
> 
> Peter E. Fry
> 
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