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----- Original Message Follows ----- From: "Stephen Sprunk" <[email protected]> To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[email protected]> Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:56:37 -0600 > Thus spake "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[email protected]> > > 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'. > > ITYM two big transit LANs -- one must be prepared for a > switch to fail. These're going to be router-to-router connections (each AR is connected to both CRs) and I had thought about tying them all into one VLAN vs. PTP Gig-E. I was just trying to find out the operational benefits of either design. scott
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