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Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs
From: Pete Templin <petelists () templin org>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:53:40 -0600
An argument could be made for individual VLANs to keep things like b- cast storms isolated. But I think the additional complexity will cause more problems than it will solve.
One must keep in mind that human error is the dominant cause of outages, and since there's not likely to be backhoes running around in a data center, IMHO the goal should be to remove as many ways as possible that your coworkers can muck things up.
Individual PTP links means a muckup probably affects only two devices. Switched LANs means a muckup possibly affects all devices (on one of the LANs), and not all of them may detect the problem at the same time.
pt
Current thread:
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Stephen Sprunk (Feb 28)
- Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs Stephen Sprunk (Feb 28)