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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 07:22:02 +1100
From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Ivo Vachkov <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Maximum number of vlans on a freebsd box ???
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:23:20PM +0200, Ivo Vachkov wrote:
>I'd like to ask if someone has information how many vlans a freebsd
>box can 'run' ?

There is no hard limit, so in theory 4096 VLANs per trunk.  If you
are using a very large number, defining VLAN_ARRAY should improve
performance at the expense of kernel memory by removing a hash lookup.

--=20
Peter

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