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Chapter 8 Configuring VLANs
Overview
Table 8-1
lists the number of supported VLANs on the switches.
The switches in
Table 8-1
support both Inter-Switch Link (ISL) and IEEE 802.1Q
trunking methods for transmitting VLAN traffic over 100BASE-T and Gigabit
Ethernet ports.
The GigaStack GBIC also supports both trunking methods. When you are
configuring a cascaded stack of Catalyst 3500 XL switches using the GigaStack
GBIC and want to include more than one VLAN in the stack, be sure to configure
all of the GigaStack GBIC interfaces as trunk ports by using the switchport mode
trunk interface configuration command and to use the same encapsulation
method by using the switchport encapsulation {isl | dot1q} interface
configuration command. For more information on these commands, refer to the
Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Command Reference.
Trunking is not supported on all switches and modules. For the list of products
that support trunking, refer to the release notes.
Table 8-1
Maximum Number of Supported VLANs
Switch
Number of
Supported VLANs
Trunking
Supported?
Catalyst 2912 XL, Catalyst 2924 XL, and
Catalyst 2924C XL switches
64
Yes
Catalyst 2900 LRE XL switches
250
Yes
Catalyst 2912M and Catalyst 2924M modular switches
250
Yes
Catalyst 3500 XL switches
250
Yes