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LAN Switching / Routing Design Questions

dtran
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Hi all,

I am working on connecting a small campus network running on 3750 switches to a pair of Nexus 7010's in a vPC domain at the data center (please see topology diagram). I'll be running EIGRP on the MDF and IDF1 stack. SVI's will be configured on each stack to handle inter-vlan routing and an L3 port will be configured on each stack to connect to the N7010. I also would like to run HSRP between the MDF and IDF1.

Anyone foresee any issues / concerns with the topology and what I am trying to accomplish ?

Thanks all in advance !! I appreciate any inputs / suggestions !!

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Joseph W. Doherty
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Same possible issues as what I noted in my last post to your other thread.  If I wasn't clear, please let me know.

Reza Sharifi
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Dan,

I agree with Joe's suggestion in making the link between the 2 3750 stacks a later-3 link. As he also noted, the stacks by themselves are redundant since you have multiple switches in each and there is no need for HSRP or VRRP between the stack.  Let the routing protocol take care of the link/device failure.  Also, make sure each access switch is connected to 2 of the 3750s in the stack (one link to the master and one to a member) using a portchannel, so both links are forwarding.

HTH

Reza 

Thanks Reza / Joe !! Very much appreciate your help !!

What if I just run L3 on the MDF stack and leave all IDF's the way they are. Any issues / concerns there ?

D.

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Not sure so much an issue, but perhaps you'll not be leveraging the maximum potential of your 3750s' network resiliency.

First, if possible, MEC between your 3750s.  Second, if your licensing supports it, go ahead and run L3 in your drawing's left 3750 stack.  If you do, you won't need to MEC between stacks but insure the two L3 links are on different stack members. Convert the L2 trunk to L3.  (If you keep it L2 trunk it will work, but you set yourself up for unicast flooding.)

If you don't run drawing's left 3750 stack as L2, the left L3 link can logically connect to your MDF stack.  Again, make the L2 trunk between the stacks MEC, if that's not possible, insure that trunk is on a different MDF stack member from the other L3 link connected to the MDF stack.

Basically, a multi-member stack will keep running with failure of a single unit, but what's the path redundancy to/from other units if that happens?  This is why I'm recommending MEC or L3 links on different stack members.