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

[Brian Desmond]

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
brian at briandesmond.com

c - 312.731.3132

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David L. West
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:48 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> 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  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/