Routing & switching
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ROUTING & SWITCHING
The art of networking
Tom Lancaster
29 Mar 2005
Rating: -3.33- (out of 5)
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Like much in life, there are levels of routing and switching that can be accomplished withminimal effort to establish simple connectivity, and then there are more advanced levels, achieved through careful tuning and consideration that result in a work of art. If designing optimized networksis something you aspire to, then one of the most important things you can do is put some thought into how you want traffic to flow through the network. To do that, consider some of these questions,which you can use as part of a checklist when you design a network:
Do layer 2 and layer 3 match? Be careful to configure the network so that Spanning-Tree and your routing protocol compliment eachother instead of conflict.
Is routing synchronous? That is, if you have multiple paths, does traffic flow in and out the same path? or does it go out one and come back in on the other? Sometimes itdoesn't matter, other times it's critical, but mostly, it's part of load-balancing which in turn is an important part of tuning your network.
Is traffic taking the most optimized path inside yourhardware? Many manufacturers deploy proprietary features that can greatly improve performance by making forwarding decisions in the line cards instead of the CPU on a router or switch. This may or may not bedefault behavior, and even if you enable it, configuring certain other features can disable it without warning you.
If you have multiple exit points in your network, is traffic taking the best one?This can be particularly tricky, especially if your network is global.
Are you using the best topology that fits your budget? Traffic between spokes on a hub, particularly common in Frame-Relaynetworks, is usually suboptimal.
Can your network benefit from prioritizing traffic or doing traffic engineering? Now that support for Policy-Based-Routing has matured considerably in most hardware...
The art of networking
Tom Lancaster
29 Mar 2005
Rating: -3.33- (out of 5)
[pic]
Like much in life, there are levels of routing and switching that can be accomplished withminimal effort to establish simple connectivity, and then there are more advanced levels, achieved through careful tuning and consideration that result in a work of art. If designing optimized networksis something you aspire to, then one of the most important things you can do is put some thought into how you want traffic to flow through the network. To do that, consider some of these questions,which you can use as part of a checklist when you design a network:
Do layer 2 and layer 3 match? Be careful to configure the network so that Spanning-Tree and your routing protocol compliment eachother instead of conflict.
Is routing synchronous? That is, if you have multiple paths, does traffic flow in and out the same path? or does it go out one and come back in on the other? Sometimes itdoesn't matter, other times it's critical, but mostly, it's part of load-balancing which in turn is an important part of tuning your network.
Is traffic taking the most optimized path inside yourhardware? Many manufacturers deploy proprietary features that can greatly improve performance by making forwarding decisions in the line cards instead of the CPU on a router or switch. This may or may not bedefault behavior, and even if you enable it, configuring certain other features can disable it without warning you.
If you have multiple exit points in your network, is traffic taking the best one?This can be particularly tricky, especially if your network is global.
Are you using the best topology that fits your budget? Traffic between spokes on a hub, particularly common in Frame-Relaynetworks, is usually suboptimal.
Can your network benefit from prioritizing traffic or doing traffic engineering? Now that support for Policy-Based-Routing has matured considerably in most hardware...
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