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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
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:
> 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