thanks!

we will try it and see what happens.

one thing though, will my application servers be able to communicate with my other vlans as the config is written.

the 3550 manual mentioned using a secondary ip address command

ie - interface vlanX

ip address 10.0.16.1 255.255.248.0

ip address 10.0.8.1 255.255.248.0 secondary

ip address 10.0.24.1 255.255.248.0 secondary

for something that sounded a whole lot like allowing other vlans to communicate but it was a little confusing on what situations called for it