Subject: Re: HW-assisted VLAN handling
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/30/2005 23:33:27
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:14:05PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> How many VLANs can the hardware handle in hardware? 4k (common limit
> on Cisco switches)? 16k? What's the maximum the IEEE packet format allows?
KS8995MA (a 5-port Ethernet switch) can manage 16 VLANs. The number of
VLANs in IEEE 802.1q format is 4096. Don't know about the chip being
actually discussed here, though :)
-jm