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Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Sat Feb 25 11:05:56 2006 
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:03 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:


I have 2 core routers (CR) and 3 access routers (AR)
currently connected point-to-point where each AR connects to
each CR for a total of 6 ckts.  Now someone has decided to
connect them with Gig-E.  I was wondering about the benefits
or disadvantages of keeping the ckts each in their own
individual LANs or tying them all into one VLAN for a
"Transit LAN" as those folks that decided on going to Gig-E
aren't doing any logical network architecting (is that a
real word?).
Personally, I like the to KISS, so one big 'transit LAN'.

An argument could be made for individual VLANs to keep things like b- cast storms isolated. But I think the additional complexity will cause more problems than it will solve.

Or maybe I'm just too dumb to keep up with the additional complexity. :)

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TTFN,
patrick