On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Randy Bias<randyb@neotactics.com> wrote:
On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Sam Johnston wrote:
- VLANs have already been mentioned and can be as simple as having an 802.1q attribute on the network resources
Please be careful on this one. Don't tie to closely to 802.1q, which is broken having only a 12-bit field (4096) for VLANs. It's extremely likely that a successor to this or a replacement technology will be used to identify VLAN uniqueness. Bottom line: whatever you use, make sure it's larger than a 12-bit field.
Any "vlan" field would likely be dependent on the local infrastructure so if you prefer to use UUIDs then that's up to you as an implementor. That means the contents would be opaque, except in so far as identical values means the networks are connected. Sam