Switching Advice

From: Brian DeFeyter (bdf@gospelcom.net)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 11:41:16 EST


I'm wondering if anyone could provide some advice wrt catalyst
connections between routers, firewalls, servers etc...

I'd like to get around having to spread out multiple switches (ie: one
between routers, between firewalls, each firewall's interface, etc...)

Has any setup something up similar with a larger 4/5/6000 series
catalyst using VLANs to segment these portions? There'd be a lot of back
and forth (ie: a packet might travel like:

routers -> switch -> firewalls -> switch -> load balancers -> switch ->
servers, etc...

where the connections are all cabled back onto the same switch, but
segmented from each other only by VLANs)

Is this a bad idea? Would I be looking at any performance degregation?
I'd have a lot fewer switches to manage. ;)



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