Before defining a profile's network configuration, refer to the following deployment guidelines
to ensure that the profile configuration is effective:
- Administrators need to route traffic between different VLANs. Bridging VLANs
are only for non-routable traffic, like tagged VLAN frames destined to some
other device which will untag it. When a data frame is received on a port,
the VLAN bridge determines the associated VLAN based on the port of
reception.
- Each time there is a change to a static route, an administrator must
manually make changes to reflect the new route. If a link goes down, even if
there is a second path, the router would ignore it and consider the link
down.
- Static routes require extensive planning and have a high management
overhead. The more routers in a network, the more routes need that to be
configured. If you have N number of routers and a route between each router
is needed, then you must configure N x N routes. Thus, for a network with
nine routers, you'll need a minimum of 81 routes (9 x 9 = 81).
