RE: switching block design

From: Brian McGahan (brian@cyscoexpert.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 00:08:39 GMT-3


Emad,

        Check out 'Gigabit Campus Network Design- Principles and
Architecture', it gives a good overview of L2 trunking vs L3 routing in
the switch block, and convergence time in the switch block based on
where a link failure occurs.

Gigabit Campus Network Design- Principles and Architecture:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/so/neso/lnso/cpso/gcnd_wp.htm

HTH,

Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
Director of Design and Implementation
brian@cyscoexpert.com

CyscoExpert Corporation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Emad
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: CCIE LAB (E-mail)
> Subject: switching block design
>
> Folks,
> I jus want to share a design with you,
> I have two core switches 6513 connected together through two giga
ports
> and I have two switches 4507 (each one of them is connected by one
link to
> both switches 6513) and each switch 4507 has one vlan only configured
on
> it , if I want to have load balancing on the switch 4507 to the two
> switches 6513 , what is more suitable , running ospf between these two
> uplinks or having HSRP running on the two interfaces and how can I do
it?
> Please advise



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