Campus routing design

[deanyoung]

What would you recommend as a good routing protocol to use for a campus comprising 6513 switches with SUP720's?

It must be standards based.

[jroyster]

OSPF is your answer.

If all cisco you can do EIGRP, but it is Cisco only.

[deanyoung]

Hi John,

Thanks. I however have to install a standards based routing protocol and EIGRP is Cisco Proprietary.

Dean

[ankurbhasin]

HI Dean,

I will prefer OSPF only if you have a very big network which includes multvendor products.

But as you have updated in your post that your network consist of 6513 and sup720s go for EIGRP, easy to configure and troubleshoot and no doubt very stable protocol.

Regards,

Ankur

[deanyoung]

Hi Ankur,

Thanks, but I have to implement a standards based routing protocol.

Dean

[snoopdoggydog]

There's really only one correct answer here, and that's OSPF. You also might need to add some BGP to the mix if you want more than one internet feed.

[ruwhite]

There isn't only one correct answer, unless you happen to believe that OSPF is "the best" routing protocol in all situations, at all times--and it's not. The "right" protocol to use in any network is dependant on a lot of factors, primarily centering around what the topology looks like (primarily hub and spoke verses primarily full mesh), and where and how much you can aggregate (OSPF limits your aggregation options, EIGRP doesn't).

Other considerations are things like will there be any non-Cisco devices in the network? What sorts of conviergence speeds do you want, and how does your topology compare to the fast convergence capabilities of each protocol in question?

:-)

Russ.W

[deanyoung]

The topology will consist of 3 x 6513 switches with Dual SUP720's that connect to each other via Gigabit Ethernet to form the Core. The distribution layer will comprise an additional 3 x 6513's. Each 6513 will be part of a seperate VTP domain as well as a seperate subnet.

I will also have Catalyst 3750 / 3560 / 2970 switches that will provide an aggregation role to the access layers. This will be done to save on fiber costs. Catalyst 2950G's will form the access layer. There is approximately 14000 endpoints.

The Wan is small and only comprises 7 remote LAN's with about 3000 users.

All services will be hosted in 2 data centers.

The other thing is that the network will have some non-Cisco devices.

:-)

Dean