VLANs and Servers

[K.C.Leblanc]

Do you multihome your servers into all your VLANs, or do you have a dedicated server VLAN and route all the traffic?

[SYNACK]

Route, routing is more controlable from a network level - blocking ports/hosts etc - however I do use layer 3 switching based routing which removes almost all of the speed burden inflicted by routing. It also puts less strain and configuration overhead on the servers as it is all specified in one easy place along with limiting the broadcasts experienced by the servers network card to the nessisary ones.

[K.C.Leblanc]

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[ssiruuk2]

All servers in a dedicated vlan and use L3 switches to route all the traffic between the different subnets / vlans.