On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Kevin Blackham wrote: > We're promoting a one day event that requires around 500 FE access ports. I > need to filter at layer 4 (block DHCP serving) and perform some QoS duties
Sounds like a classical lan-party setup. I've done this but with 4500 ports. People do this with cheap switches from dlink, zyxel, linksys etc. Centrally placed cisco 6500 (borrowed or rented) or equivalent with a lot of copper ports, single CAT5 from that to whereever fan-out is needed and place cheap 24 port switch there. Do management on one vlan, do /26 for the participants on another. Don't bother with DHCP protection and other stuff in the fanout switches, they'll only break the other 23 participants and it's fairly easy to faultfind. So, in short, get cheap simple fan-out switch, do intelligence centrally. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
