[182833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Hoppes)
Sun Aug 2 18:29:50 2015
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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 17:29:46 -0500
From: Josh Hoppes <josh.hoppes@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> josh,
>
> thanks for the more technical scoop. now i get it a bit better.
>
>> We also re-designed the LAN back in 2011 to break up the giant single
>> broadcast domain down to a subnet per table switch.
>
> so it is heavily routed using L3 on the core 'switches'? makes a lot of
> sense.
Single core switch, the Cisco 6509 VE in the video, handles routing
between subnets. Table switches have an IP for management and
monitoring. We have some 3750Gs for additional routing in other parts
of the event.