Subject: [rbridge] PS issue #2

From: spencer at mcsr-labs.org (Spencer Dawkins)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:18:29 -0600

#2 should the solution apply to current ethernet scales or not?
   and if so, what are current ethernet scales?
   Harald proposed as a starting point:
   * 1000 end-hosts in a single bridged LAN of 100 bridges
   * 100.000 end-hosts inside 1000 VLANs served by 10.000 bridges

FWIW, I was reviewing a proposed customer deployment yesterday that included 
5000 end-hosts in a single bridged LAN of 120 bridges...

A quick look at the IEEE tutorial archives turned up "Deploying the world's 
largest IEEE 802.11b campus", at 
http://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/nov03/www.wireless.ubc.ca-IEEE-Nov2003.ppt, 
with 5000 end-hosts and 1200 APs/200 distribution switches (I assume 
"distribution switches" == "bridges", in this context).

I'd like our definition of "current ethernet scales" to accommodate these, I 
think...

Thanks,

Spencer