Just had a quick design question to get further insight on.
We have small enterprise campus with about 80+ switches. Currently we setup vlans per closet that are trunked back to the core and have vrf's per function and route between VRF's.
Example
Closet A
vlan 1 printers
vlan 2 PC
Vlan 3 cameras
Closet B
Vlan 11 printers
vlan 12 PC
vlan 13 cameras
Printer guy says he would like for all printers to be on the same vlan/subnet across the whole campus as it make it much easier for some of the applications he uses to talk to them. We have a print server and no direct printing.
I am going back and forth on this. The subnet we would need to support this would be quite small, /23 at the max. We have control of all printers so we can shut off any unneeded chatty protocols. Everything comes back to the core for routing as well.
The main downside I see is broadcast traffic. Which really should not be much as all as we can shut off anything we don't want.
Any suggestions either way?
