[c-nsp] Cisco noob -- design guidance request

[Simon Lockhart]

On Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 08:16:14AM -0600, David L. West wrote:
> Thanks. I think I screwed up buying the hardware though. I have a 2960G-24TC 
> as the core switch in the server room, a 2960-48TT for the first floor, and 
> a 3548XL for the 3rd. Only the last is Layer 3.
> 
> Reading your message and doing further research I begin to suspect I have to 
> have Layer 3 switches throughout for this all to work. 

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.

Simon
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