thanks for the good feedback from the list and madman, chuck, howard, and steve. I admit the static routes work efficiently, and they do the load balancing as required. It just seems a bit uncool to be all static , that's all. If we go any direction it will probably be with eigrp, I like the idea of the WAN update controls inherent when forced to carrying IPX/SPX to some sites from the core. i could have done without the archive crack from patrick. ;-)
jason -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Larrieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 05:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How would you design a Network ? [7:32067] why do you think you need to change? seriously? what would dynamic routing give you that you don't have now - in terms of stability and the like? it might seem an odd thing to say, but I believe that dynamic routing in small environments, and maybe even in some larger environments, is over rated, no matter whose routers or what routing protocols you use. BTW, I am personally acquainted with a portion of the network of a very large technology company that consists entirely of static routes. Over 3000 of them. They had a particular good reason for doing it this way. But my point is that there are considerations other than "because you can" or "because you want to" Chuck ""Bullock, Jason"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=32155&t=32155 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
