RE: vpls scaling question

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joris wils [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: 'Wright, Steven'; 'Loa Andersson'
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: vpls scaling question
> 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Questions for you:
> a) Why does each household need its own VLAN?  Why can a set 
> of household
> not share a vlan, each household with its own, possibly 
> statically assigned,
> MAC addresses?
> 

isolate each customer in their own VLAN


> b) If each household must have its own VLAN, then are such 
> VLANs usually
> point2point Ethernet circuits to an Internet router?  It is 
> far easier to
> handle very large numbers of point2point circuits, than very 
> large numbers
> of multipoint VLANs.
> 


I expect mostly pt-pt
but not all pt-pt




> Cheers,
> Joris
> 
>
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