Re: Cat6k vlan configuration

2001-03-22 Thread Darren Crawford
I agree with Rik regarding your subnet size. It's way too big. Divide people up by floor, wing or business function, whatever makes sense. Also you'll save yourself quite a few headaches by hard coding your speed and duplex at the switch. HTH Darren At 12:37 PM 03/22/2001 +, Karl Brenn

RE: Cat6k vlan configuration

2001-03-22 Thread Brant Stevens
ECTED] Subject: Re: Cat6k vlan configuration I am concerned with your numbers. 1500 users on an IP (I assume) subnet is way too many! Remember, a VLAN will propagae all broadcasts. Each and every ARP, BOOTP, etc. will traverse the entire backbone. I would suggest you break this down into at le

Re: Cat6k vlan configuration

2001-03-22 Thread Rik
I am concerned with your numbers. 1500 users on an IP (I assume) subnet is way too many! Remember, a VLAN will propagae all broadcasts. Each and every ARP, BOOTP, etc. will traverse the entire backbone. I would suggest you break this down into at least 3, preferably 5 VLANs to minimize the aff

Cat6k vlan configuration

2001-03-22 Thread Karl Brenner
Hi, I've to upgrade a tokenring network with 1500 users to a gigabit backbone ethernet network. I worked my way trough the SAFE network design, but this is not quite finanzable. The network looks like this: Core/distribution: two cat6500 one native IOS the other hybride connected to a 7200 Wan