Re: vpls scaling question

Ping Pan <[email protected]> Tue, 20 May 2003 08:42:53 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ppvpn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Steven.Wright wrote:
> 
> 
>>Surely for residential households, you want to treat each one
>>as a single IP
>>subnet, and  connect them to  a router.  I  don't see where
>>VPLS  even comes
>>into it.  Am I missing something?
>>
>>
> 
> the VLAN ID may be used to identify traffic of a customer within a
> particular service provider's network.
> the IP service(s) may be provided by a different service provider(s)
> 

But there are only 4000 VLAN values altogether. There is no high-speed 
MAC chip available that supports stacked-VLAN last time I look into it.

Am I missing something here?

- Ping