To route or not to route.....

From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 09:47:45 GMT-3

All,

I'm currently working on a design for a customer. Straight forward
design with Access and a Core. 3750's in the access layer and a 6513 in
the core (yes there is only 1, but the customer already has it, it has
dual sup cards and dual power supplies...) the 3750's are in stacks and
there is dual gig links back to the core.

I was at a Cisco seminar recently where Cisco said that the best
practice is to route, rather than use spanning tree and switch,
essentially turn off spanning tree. I'm quite happy to run either way,
but I do have a question:-

We are running VoIP on the network and there is call recording software
going in. This needs to have the ports of the gatekeepers span'd to it
so that it can do the recording. If I'm routing my network, what are
the options for accomplishing this if my gatekeepers are not connected
to the same switch?

I presume that someone out there has run into a similar issue, so any
insight would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards
LH
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