Yes ... a router is a "layer 3 device". You can think of a layer 3 switch as a switch which has a router tacked on.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cisco-nsp- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David L. West > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco noob -- design guidance request > > > No - you just need one Layer 3 device, with an interface in each > subnet. > > Neither the 2960G nor the 3548XL is a Layer 3 device, so you'll need > to > > find > > a router from somewhere, and trunk all the vlans into that to do the > > routing > > between them, and to the outside world. > > > If I understand you correctly, its the absense of a Layer 3 device that > makes a router necessary. Thus my choices are: > > a) get a layer 3 device and let it handle this > b) do the interVLAN routing on the server > c) get a dedicated router to handle the interVLAN routing > > Do I have that right, or do I need to do more reading? > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
