RE: Connecting two core switches / Design

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 22:25:04 GMT-3


At 7:46 PM -0400 6/3/04, asadovnikov wrote:
>Assuming that your core is L3 (which it really should be), for 2 gig I would
>rather see you use 2 independent point-to-point L3 links. CEF loadbalancing
>will be almost as effective as EtherChannel, while EtherChannel is real
>difficult to troubleshoot. If you have your mind set on EtherChannel go
>with L3 one.
>
>In most today networks VTP brings no benefit, so I would recommend you to
>run all you boxes in transparent mode (not in server mode). It is fine then
>to use same domain name. If you think you will benefit from VTP let me know
>why you need it, and I may be able to give you another recommendation.
>

Do you feel VTP is any more useful with Version 3? I will admit I
originally thought of it as a compatibility tool, when you mixed ISL,
LANE, 802.10 SDE, etc.



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