[88945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sat Feb 25 11:04:59 2006
In-Reply-To: <43ffbaeb.72.443.1796097181@mauigateway.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:04:12 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
