I should have provided more detail. 95% of our servers are located at the core. We are a mid-sized campus. All locations are connected via single-mode fiber with 1gb gbics. Due to budget constraints, it would be manual routing.
-----Original Message----- From: Borel, Reese [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 6:44 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: RE:[enterasys] Configuration question Sean, In my humble opinion.... The largest thing to consider is resources location (Servers, Inet connection, etc). We had close to the same situation with a local municipality. When we took over networking for them it was a distributed routing (all static routes I must add....). Administration was a little bit cumbersome managing all 90 plus static routes. Based on resource location we have rolled them back to a centralized core doing the bulk of the routing. There are still a couple locations that have their own (backup) routing ability (fire stations, police) due to them having their own service provider and being emergency response. If you have local resources at each of the remotes, sure, break it back out to the edge. That way if something goes down, the remotes still have the resources they need and can function. If you break it out, I suggest using OSPF. As I mentioned in the beginning, this is my opinion. EVERYONE networks differently. I can just tell you that my business partner and I would base the decision on resources location. Reese ________________________________________ From: Sheil,Sean M [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:58 PM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: [enterasys] Configuration question Hi all, We have a 99% Enterasys network. At our core we are replacing our dfe blades with an S4. Three years ago, I move all of the routing from the edge devices (E1's) to the core. Everything had run fine until an issue occurred recently. Now the thought process has been to move the routing back out to the edge devices using static routes. I am looking for external advise on the pros and cons of making this change. We have 40+ subnets/vlans. The remote buildings will have a G3 at the entrance with 2 - 3 E1's stacked behind. At some point in time, we have had up to 13K devices connect to our network. Thanks, Sean --- Sean M. Sheil, GSEC-Gold Sr. Systems Administrator Northwest Missouri State University 660.541.3021 --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
