At 09:17 AM 3/18/01, Groupstudy wrote:
>How on earth can you make recommendations without knowing more about the
>network you are working on? We have no idea of the quantitly of users, the
>traffic patterns, whether the company is hosting its own DMZ, how fast their
>links are, what routing protocol(s) they run, their addressing scheme...need
>I go on?
>
>Sounds like you just read the DCN book and are spouting textbook
The DCN book would say to gather all that information you mentioned first.
It sounds like you are spouting the textbook, and that's a good thing. &;-)
>generalities.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Santosh Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 5:20 AM
>Subject: Re: A design problem of switched network
>
>
> > I am going to make a few assumptions here based on your request
> >
> > 4003 4003 4003
> >
> > 6509 6509
> >
> > PIX
> >
> > WWW
> >
> > 1) Dont run any kind of routing at the core layer.... leave that job for
>the
> > distribution layer
> > 2) Now since there is no L3 routing taking place at the core, it means
>that
> > there are going to be 2 subnets from the distribution switches to the core
> > switches. All the links to the first 6509 will be on one VLAN and all the
> > wires going to the 2nd switch will belong to the second VLAN.
> > 3) Get a Pix with 3 interfaces. Use 1 as an external interface (to www),
>and
> > use the other two as internal interfaces (one going to each of the 2
>VLAN's
> > the 4003's) are connected to.
> >
> > With the above setup your traffic will be load balanced.... and both
>subnets
> > will be in use...
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Santosh Koshy
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > ""frank"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > 992dnf$jd9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:992dnf$jd9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Now I want to design a lan for a company, i want to use 2 6509s as core
> > > switches for redundancy ,several 4003 as distribution switches .Each
>4003
> > > connect to 6509 seperately ,2 6509 connect to a pix which links to
> > > internet.
> > > What puzzled me is how to deal with these 2 6509s.Do they need to be
> > > connected with GEC technology and apply HSRP on them ?If they don't have
> > > links ,which link should a 4003 choose to visit internet?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
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