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Hi, I got a situation that I have to configure a loopback interface on layer 2 switch for management in the routed network. Is it possible to manage a layer 2 switch by Telnet the loopback address form a remote host which is not in the same networ...
Can anybody explain how to implement a backbone ring with layer 3 switches and each layer 3 switch has its own lan. Please find the attached drawing for a rough idea. Is it better to assign ip address for l3 switch ports in the ring and use a Layer 3...
Please find the below image, this is exactly what my situation is. 1. I AM USING OSPF AS ROUTING PROTOCOL 2. I WAS ASKED TO ASSIGN LOOPBACK ADDRESS FOR EACH SWITCH FOR MANAGEMENT. 3. I WAS ABLE TO ASSIGN LOOPBACK FOR L3 SWITCH AND REDISTIBUTE INTO OS...
Thanks for the reply, but the other way how the default-gateway knows about the l2 switch loopback address when it receives the IP packet with l2 switch loop back address as the destination. To where the default-gateway forwords this packet?Thank you...
Thanks again, as far as I know p2p L3 is better, I was just trying to know whether there is another better way than p2p L3. With your answers now I am confident that L3 routing is more suitable to this type of network.Thank you,Pramod.
Hi Joseph & Larosa, Thanks for the replies, I just have one more question, for example, lan subnets of the L3 switches are 10.1.1.0/24, 10.1.2.0/24, 10.1.3.0/24 and so on. each lan device has a gateway Ip address which is the vlan ip address of the ...
