Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Why use a L3 switch vs trunk?

Hello, working with a client whose former IT provider spared no expense in setting up their rack.

One thing I'm wondering is they have a L3 switch that does some routing with very simple static routes. There is one internal Vlan, some IPs route to one switch, others to the second, then the default route for everything else is to the firewall.

The only ports used on this switch are those 3 mentioned. Just wondering why they would have done this versus simply trunking the two access switches?

Not sure on the specific model, but they are all HP ProCurves.



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