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Hi, I'm doing an internship as IT-engineer and looking into new networkdevices for the new office building (company of about 60 employees, but growing). Routing is currently performed by a Cisco ASA Firewall and switching by D-Link switches (DGS-1510...
Thank you all for the quick responses. Though it seems odd to me that such an ACL exists if it has such an impact on the performance. Then again, my lack of experience probably makes me overlook other factors.
So from all the responses I gather that due to the need for this stateful rule, the idea of routing on L3 switches is out the door?It would be best to buy a powerfull firewall and just leave the switches to switching...
It exists in Packet Tracer L3 switches (3560 and 3650), so assume it's available 'in the real world'. The ASA is a 5500. I know I can use the ASA for this, but the whole point is relying on L3 switches for routing. As I'm still a student, I lack the ...
At the moment there are only 2 vlans (since recently actually, before everything was on 1 VLAN), so the ASA doesn't have much routing work. The plan is to split the network up into more vlans (administrative, production, guest wifi, camera's, printer...
