[89009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Feb 28 20:34:37 2006
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:33:51 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
----- Original Message Follows -----
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
> Thus spake "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
> > From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
> >> 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.
>
> If your physical topology is going to be PTP links, then
> you should go with PTP at the logical level as well.
> Making one topology look like another is generally a bad
> idea.
This is what I decided to do.
Thanks everyone, your ideas (and those of a good friend)
helped me to find the KISS solution. :-)
scott
