I agree with this design. At a local college, we have 2000+ devices on 40+ edge switches all terminating to a new S4 at the core. We do all the routing between 20 subnets on campus with OSPF in the S4 and the system utilization is negligible. In addition, all 15 our vmware esx boxes terminate into the S4 as well and the network is wicked fast.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Printz" <[email protected]> To: "Enterasys Customer Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 2, 2011 7:29:25 AM Subject: RE: [enterasys] Configuration question About a year ago, we upgraded our Core to an S4 and it has worked beautifully. It handles all of our routing and we have not encountered any issues with it. Our edge has a mix of G3's and E1's. I could not imagine having the routing occur at the edge switches; it seems like more work for little gain. I feel, that for our scenario it works well having the core do all the work. Even with all of those subnets and devices, I think that routing at the core will be the best option. Patrick Printz Network Services Quinsigamond Community College 670 West Boylston Street Worcester, MA 01606-2092 w. 508-854-7517 c. 508-726-9529 "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu -----Original Message----- From: Sheil,Sean M [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:58 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: [enterasys] Configuration question Hi all, We have a 99% Enterasys network. At our core we are replacing our dfe blades with an S4. Three years ago, I move all of the routing from the edge devices (E1's) to the core. Everything had run fine until an issue occurred recently. Now the thought process has been to move the routing back out to the edge devices using static routes. I am looking for external advise on the pros and cons of making this change. We have 40+ subnets/vlans. The remote buildings will have a G3 at the entrance with 2 - 3 E1's stacked behind. At some point in time, we have had up to 13K devices connect to our network. Thanks, Sean --- Sean M. Sheil, GSEC-Gold Sr. Systems Administrator Northwest Missouri State University 660.541.3021 --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
