On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
What is a "routing switch"? You mean I can put an IP on the thing and
set my boxes gateway to it?
Pretty much, yes. Note, however, that this doesn't really support
ACLs (AFAIK), but if you're doing multiple subnets, you can divvy
the switch up via VLANs and the switch will happily route between
them for you.
For what it's worth, I've actually found that you get far more
flexibility when using a managed switch with VLAN support to do a
"router-on-a-stick" configuration. I.e., you have a system acting as
a firewalling router (or would that be a routing firewall?) connected
with a single high-speed link with VLAN trunking (802.11q, i think)
to the switch. This tends to work best when the trunk is faster than
the normal ports on the switch, especially in high-volume cases
(i.e., GigE trunk v. 10/100 switch ports, 10GigE trunk v. GigE switch
ports...)
Gregory
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