On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:14:48AM -0800, Hermes Flying wrote: > Hi Willy, thanks for this. > 1)I wanted to ask does the oblique lines indicates 2-port NIC on each server?
Exactly. Note that almost all servers nowadays come with 2 onboard ports. > 2) If I remove the oblique line as you note and have the 2 switches > interconnected this is still considered a SPOF right? As loss of either > switch1 or switch 2 brings the design down, right? No it's not a spof because if you lose a switch, you only lose the attached server and the attached router, so your architecture works in degraded mode but you still have one component of each kind to provide the service. Willy
