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High Availability Campus Design: Layer 3 Access to the Distribution

Steph1963
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Hi Cisco Expert,

 

I have seen on many Cisco Campus design document the Layer 3 Access to the Distribution Model as shown in figure 6 in the following link

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/HA_recovery_DG/campusRecovery.html

 

This model indicated that a layer 3 link is used between the 2 distribution switches as opposed as a layer 2 trunk for the Distributed Vlans on Access switch.

I am familiar in creating HSRP under vlan interface but I would like to know how we can configure HSRP or VRRP under this layer 3 link. Any configuration example would be greatly appreciated.

Secondly, I would like to know if it is a good practice for the core routers to only send the default route to the distribution switches and for the distribution switches to send a summary route of the access subnet.

Finally, any explanation on when to used a Distributed VLANs on Access Switches vs Layer 3 Access to the distribution would really be helpful.

 

Thanks for your help

Stephane

 

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