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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:18:32 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ivo Vachkov <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Maximum number of vlans on a freebsd box ???
Message-ID:  <20071103221832.GA2573@heff.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <f85d6aa70711031123w87263d8i856064cf1f256f7@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f85d6aa70711031123w87263d8i856064cf1f256f7@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:23:20PM +0200, Ivo Vachkov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'd like to ask if someone has information how many vlans a freebsd
> box can 'run' ?

There is no limit. You can only add 4096 per interface of course as its
a 12bit tag. If you are adding a lot then you should use the VLAN_ARRAY
kernel option which gives a constant tag lookup time.


Andrew



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