does anyone actually have any experience of "clever" NICs? - ie
etherchannel-enabled, vlan-aware(ISL/dot1q), etc?
I seem to remember posting this a year or so back with a deafening silence
as result - have we all really gotten shot of server admin already? If so,
do the server guys know what cool stuff we can do for them??
if anyone has any experience then I would be glad to know about it - NT,
Solaris, *BSD, etc.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sammi"
To:
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: VLAN's and Routers [7:2534]
> On 30 Apr 2001 15:06:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Howard C. Berkowitz")
> wrote:
>
> >>Thanks all, that clarifies somewhat.
> >>
> >>On 30 Apr 2001 14:06:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Karen E Young")
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Usually there needs to be some form of communication
> >>>between VLANS though, so practically speaking you do need a router.
> >>
> >>What I would like to do is create broadcast domains for different
> >>departments, ie finance, admin. But all departments would need to
> >>communicate with the same server(s).
> >
> >Have you looked at VLAN-aware NICs on the server? They would let you
> >have a logical interface in each VLAN.
>
> I haven't, but I will do so.
>
> >There may be more basic questions. Approximately how many hosts are
> >in each department? What protocols do they run? Is there a specific
> >reason you think you may have a problem with broadcasts? Are the
> >hosts plugged into switches that can do per-port broadcast rate
> >limiting?
>
> From my limited knowledge I've observed that there is no network
> management. All switches are run "out of the box". It seems we would
> get more efficiency by isolating departments. There are 6 - 12 hosts
> in a typical department, most located in a one floor building with
> four wings, others located in various quonset huts connected to main
> via fibre.
> Currently running Banyan IP, am migrating the environment to 2000 and
> rebuilding the infrastructure in the process.
> I am replacing the 2800 and 1900 switches with Catalyst 2900xl, I
> haven't seen mention of throttling capability.
>
> My goal is to simplify management, or centralize may be more accurate,
> and make the network as efficient as possible.
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