OT: communication of different lans

[azeem ahmad]

>From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: OT: communication of different lans
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:57:08 -0600
>
>On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:41, azeem ahmad wrote:
> > hi list
> > i got 7 networks. which are
> > 192.168.0.0/24
> > 192.168.1.0/24
> > 192.168.2.0/24
> > 192.168.3.0/24
> > 192.168.4.0/24
> > 192.168.5.0/24
> > 192.168.6.0/24
> >
> > i want all these lans to communicate with each other,
> > wot may be used to make them communicating
> > a router
> > or
> > a layer 3 switch
>
>A router is the usual way.  A layer 3 switch does some
>routing operations and would probably work too.  If you
>are looking for a cheaper way, you can stick the number
>of NIC's you need in a fedora box (which would make the
>discussion relevant here) or you can combine a router
>with a small number of VLAN trunk capable interfaces with
>a switch that also understands vlans and make it look
>like each switch port is a router port.  However with that
>last way the routing speed is limited by the trunk
>interface where everything is combined.
>
>--
i want to use layer 3 switch bbcuz it will work speedy than routers or FC 
machine
wot u recomend???