[88974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Mon Feb 27 14:11:11 2006
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:10:24 -1000
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From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes"
<nanog@merit.edu>
Subject: Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:56:37 -0600
> Thus spake "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
> > 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
