i am sorry but i have to inject a different perspective here.. i am old school.....(if it any broke ..don`t fix it)..
and i personally beleive that although "madman`s" solution is a excellent,workable one... you current solution has no real drawbacks if indeed you have a star network and if indeed you have ALL sites terminating at one point (the HQ)...then there is "real benefit" to change.... it may have benefits for you as a support bloke ,but from the actual networking point of view ...i don`t beleive so... sure, if you have multiple router`s at the HQ 3 or over and have each router connecting to a fixed amount of sites (say each router has 5 spoke sites meaning 5 core routers) then by all means run a dynamic between the cores ....but as from your spokes ...the only way to get anywhere is through the hub ..so i think you only need a default route ...which is less proccessing and less work for you spokes routers to do .... i have a situation where i am running a dynamic on my spokes but that is only because with my smds backbone i can have the spokes talk to eachother without going to the hub...otherwise it`s defaults for me too... Cheers steve (don`t flame me too much ...i`m just trying to help) >From: "MADMAN" >Reply-To: "MADMAN" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: How would you design a Network ? [7:32067] >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:48:31 -0500 > >As I have mentioned before, in this topology I would use EIGRP. >Enable EIGRP on all routers and their perspective networks. At the core >create an access-list permiting only default and distribute this list >out to the remotes. This way everything is learned dynamically but do >not have a full routing table at all the spokes since they are either >locally connected or going across the WAN anyway. > > Dave > >"Bullock, Jason" wrote: > > > > Listers. > > > > I would like to make some routing changes to a mostly static routing > > environment. Currently everything is either routed via default gateway, >or > > static route statements. > > > > the environment consists of about 30 remote point to point WAN sites, >with > > most data traffic consisting of IP. We have several sites on dual T1's, >and > > all sites are terminating at a central corporate location. So a big >star > > network. The vendor of choice is cisco for routing and switching. > > > > Anyone see OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, IGRP, ISIS as the way to go? I would like >to > > make this network more dynamic, just having a hard time justifying the >move. > > > > All thoughts appreciated! > > > > thanks, > > Jason >-- >David Madland >Sr. Network Engineer >CCIE# 2016 >Qwest Communications Int. Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >612-664-3367 > >"Emotion should reflect reason not guide it" _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=32145&t=32067 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
