Sammi, in terms of sizing, the best piece of equipment is the least cost
router that does the job.
Think in these terms - traffic flow, application requirements, etc.
If you were routing between two subnets, using two ethernet ports, and had
75 users per subnet, how would you provision?
The only difference between 150 users on four physical subnets and 150 users
on four logical subnets is the single interface that traffic in and out
uses, versus the four interfaces.
Are your applications such that 150 folks are going to overload that 100
megabits full duplex link? In practical terms, will there be a lot of
inter-VLAN traffic? I.e do members of each VLAN access the same primary
servers ( which would lead me to wonder why you need VLANs in the first
place ), or do they all access servers specific to their VLAN? All your
routes will be in cache probably 100% of the time. You won't be killing the
CPU with route lookups in any case.
HTH
Chuck
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On 2 May 2001 02:45:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bill Pearch")
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>This is a Cisco type email list. There IS a Cisco answer.
And that's what I'm after, was just exploring other possibilities.
Now I need to decide what type of router to purchase; ~150 users split
between 4-6 VLAN's.
Thanks for the tips!
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