I want to give a breif overview of the current setup and what I had planned to do in the future. This is also where a few questions come into play. Currently we have 3 10.x.x.x subnets between three buildings with a wan connection. This connection is invisible to us so it can be seen as just a lan. The speed is 100mb. We have a 2811 router sitting at each building translating their traffic back to 10.3.1.1. We then have a router in the main building which ships the 10.3.x.x traffic to a ASA and then out the door to a ISP.
My plan was to upgrade this 100mb WAN connection to 10g fiber between our buildings as they are in extremely close range of each other. I would need a equipment upgrade as a 2811 won't support 10g traffic. Rather than replacing 3 routers in each of the buildings it seemed logical that I could get something like a catalyst 4500 or 6500 and do int vlan routing making it all one huge campus lan. Creating a vlan for each building to segment the traffic between them. My understanding was that a cat 3500/4500/6500 did not need a router with sub interfaces in a one arm setup to bridge this traffic. This is where the problem comes in.
I used the following guide from cisco.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk815/technologies_configuration_example09186a008019e74e.shtml
I tested with a cat 3560 and was unable to get the vlans to route correctly. Do I have to have a router to get int vlan routing to work? If so then I might as well get a Router which can handle multiple 10g fiber for the core instead of a cat 4500/6500 since I'd need the router to do the int vlan routing anyway?
Any help with these questions would be much appreciated.
