On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:
* jeff-kell@utc.edu (Jeff Kell) [Mon 26 Jan 2004, 00:35 CET]:
Using 3550-48s you can have L3 links between VTP domains.
The point of using VLANs is that you don't need to route. There's probably a good reason for switching instead of routing in the original poster's scenario. (Perhaps a FTTH-like project?)
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but at some point you will have to route all those VLAN's. To really answer the question about wether > 1000 VLAN's are necessary one would need to see the network design.
From my point of view I'd have to question the need to carry that many VLAN's over a large portion of the network. I would think that the network should be more partitioned so most of the VLAN's don't need to be seen outside a small area.
bye, ken emery