CCNA R&S: Introduction to Networks - Question

[RukusSukur80255]

Hi all,

sorry if this isn't the right forum. I tried asking the same question on the Cisco Press forum, whit no success.

I have a question about the definition found in the CCNA R&S course: for peer-to-peer network I have read that one of its disavantages is that it is a non-scalable network. This definition is not clear for me. What is the reason why it wouldn't be scalable? Can anyone explain to me what this means?

Thanks for your time.

RS

[RukusSukur80255]

I have a question about the definition found in the CCNA R&S course: for peer-to-peer network I have read that one of its disavantages is that it is a non-scalable network. This definition is not clear for me. What is the reason why it wouldn't be scalable? Can anyone explain to me what this means?

Thanks for your time.

RS

[balaji.bandi]

short high-level Peer to peer network can not scale more devices you have in the network 100 or 1000 +

This is more of an instructor-led to question, if you taking any course worth asking the instructor can explain in a better way.

here is the forum for learning :

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/topic/0TO3i0000008jYHGAY/ccna-certification-community

[Richard Burts]

There are probably multiple answers to this question. The first one that occurs to me is that with peer to peer  you need an interface for each neighbor. If you want to have 10 neighbors in OSPF are you going to need 10 interfaces? Think about OSPF on an Ethernet interface where one interface allows you to have 10 neighbors on a single interface. Would you not see that as scalable?