hiya folks :) happy monday
I'm thinking of backup solutions for a network I'm consulting for.
This network consists of 7 Vlans of which 5 are used for production. The
core switch is a Cat 6509 with gig uplinks to 9 closets with about 1500
nodes total. Incase the Cat catches on fire I would like to have a borg like
spanning tree festival that will make the network at least usable till
smartnet kicks in and replaces things. To each closet we have multiple
fibers running that are unused that I can use.
To the best of my little knowledge of design of networks. What Im thinking
is a smaller cat3508 as a redundant link to the closets. Spanning tree will
do it's job on the trunks. But this is just a bunch of 35xx switches and
intervlan routing is not taken care of. Now, here I have a 2620 with a Fast
Ethernet capable of ethernet trunks. if need be I can install another Fast
Ethernet card in it. This would do the inter-vlan routing. questions:
Is this a good idea? Any better ideas for it? Where the heck would I put the
router to do the intervlan stuff and what would tell the switches to use it
as such. Can I just plug it into a peripheral trunked 3524 and let er rip or
does it have to be on the temp backbone switch?
your design expertise would be ____GREATLY___ appreciated.
This company is in the middle of layoffs like mad. Soon it will be back to
paper like the '60s :|
But anyways this is what keeps me paid.
Links, replies, money, free cheeze, coupons appreciated!
Thanks VERY VERY much in advance,
David Cooper
eosyn at linuxmafia dot org (no Im not a mafia person or '31337')
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