--On February 25, 2006 11:04:12 AM -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
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?).
In my experience either solution has tradeoffs and the correct one depends greatly on your traffic patterns. Having said that, what I find causes most of the problems in either solution is when the Layer 3 topology starts to diverge from the Layer 2 topology. Owen -- If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.