Hi ,
Here is a brief overview of my infrastructure and want to get your opinion on it and then have some questions as below .
I have 2 backbone L3 switches which all of the other L2 access switches do connect to ( around 8) . Some of the access switches have links to other access switches for redundancy purposes as it is no possible to have many direct redundant links to the backbone due to the cost of installing new fiber lines .
Each access switch in on a different vlan .
backbone is then connected to server farm using etherchannel on L3 mode.
Backbone 1 is connected to serverfarm 1 ( 8 etherchannel L3)
backbone 2 is connected to serverfarm 2 ( 8 etherchannel L3 )
Now I have an out of band managment vlan which is 600 so what I want to do is hav the server farm routers accessible on the L2 vlan for management purposes only .
So I have a link from Backbone 1 to Serverfarm1 ( in addition to the 8 above) in L2 and access mode assigned to vlan 600
Same between backbone 2 and serverfrarm 2 .
So my question is , what are the improvement you would make to the design ?
2. I am trying to enable stp gaurd on Serverfarm and backbone 1 switched on the ports which are layer 2 in access mode but that does disable the port. I can get my head around it . I know it is very simple but yet very confused.
I am having portedge setup on those ports . My view is if they are edgeport and are in access mode, why would they receive stp bpdu ?
Many thanks
