question - oversubscription on switch trunk links... or not?

2001-03-21 Thread ciscosis
Hello all, Can anyone advise/help with this? =20 Recently we installed a switched network using the cisco colapsed core = model. Our core/distribution switches are 2 cat 6506's connected to each other = via a gbit etherchannel providing 2 gbits of bandwidth between the core = switches.=20 Our t

question - oversubscription on switch trunk links... or not?

2001-03-21 Thread ciscosis
Hello all, Can anyone advise/help with this? Recently we installed a switched network using the Cisco collapsed core model. Our core/distribution switches are 2 cat 6506's connected to each other via a gbit etherchannel providing 2 gbits of bandwidth between the core switches. Our trunk links f

Re: question - oversubscription on switch trunk links... or not?

2001-03-21 Thread Moe Tavakoli
Oversubscribed Yes... Likelyhood of it causing an issue... Near none I doubt that you will see the day that your network produces that much bandwidth to cause this to happen... Also remember that half your network sits on one switch (65) and the rest on the other... so even if you were f

Re: question - oversubscription on switch trunk links... or not?

2001-03-21 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Did you purposely reverse the 80/20 rule? I ask this in all seriousness. We used to design campus networks with the assumption that 80% of traffic stays local and 20% is destined for a different LAN. That may or may not be valid for your network. With intranets and server farms, the rule became