From: phase90 (phase90@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 21:16:34 GMT-3
Yes but what if your access switch / router is one hop from your core, why
would you route that hop and have the additional latency in the routing
process?
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "asadovnikov" <asadovnikov@comcast.net>
To: "'Conte, Charles'" <Charles.Conte@nasdaq.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:57 AM
Subject: RE: Simple Design Question
> I like the approach. If access switches are L3 capable you should run
them
> as routers not switches. Although there are always corner cases when L2
may
> be better option, I strongly agree that benefits of avoiding L2 generally
> greater then any potential downside.
>
> Best Regards,
> Alexei
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Conte, Charles
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:29 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT:Simple Design Question
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> If MSFC's are available at the access-layer, can anybody
> tell me why we wouldn't run L3 to the access layer if the primary and
> secondary access switches are available in convenient locations? Also
> for the attached gifs can anybody provide any opinions on why one
> wouldn't extend L3 to the access instead of having L2 only Access
> switches [Example 1 L3] V.S. [Example 2 L2]? I like avoiding L2 in any
> situations that I can. I can understand if the requirement is to have
> the vlan available at every switch to go with example 2, but if not it
> wouldn't make sense to extend L2 everywhere. Any opinions appreciated!
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Charles
>
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