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RE: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:09:22 +0000 (GMT)
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> An argument could be made for individual VLANs to keep thingslike b- cast storms isolated. But I think the additional complexity will cause more problems than it will solve.Vlans will not stop all typres of broadcast storm.
So, perhaps I missed the earlier explanation, but why use switched segments at all? if the purpose is to connect routers to routers putting something that WILL FAIL in the middle is only going to increase your labor costs later :( So, for router-router links, GE doesn't have to mean switched...
Current thread:
- Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Scott Weeks (Feb 24)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 25)
- RE: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Neil J. McRae (Feb 25)
- RE: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 25)
- RE: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Owen DeLong (Feb 25)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Warren Kumari (Feb 27)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs goemon (Feb 27)
- RE: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Neil J. McRae (Feb 25)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 25)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Mark Smith (Feb 25)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Mark Smith (Feb 25)