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Is it possible to use ip routing on each 3750 at each location while maintaining pc's from all subnets at all locations?
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Is it possible to use ip routing on each 3750 at each location while maintaining pc's from all subnets at all locations?

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I currently administer 5 campuses on a flat network connected by fiber. &nbsp;I just purchased 6 Cisco 3750 switches to replace the backbone switches at each campus with one at the demarc where the external router is located.<br />
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My question: &nbsp;Would I be better to run all vlans back to the demarc switch and let it alone do the ip routing or should I enable ip routing on each switch with routing occuring at each campus? &nbsp;There will be some vlans that will cross campus boundaries on occassion.
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I currently administer 5 campuses on a flat network connected by fiber.  I just purchased 6 Cisco 3750 switches to replace the backbone switches at each campus with one at the demarc where the external router is located.

My question:  Would I be better to run all vlans back to the demarc switch and let it alone do the ip routing or should I enable ip routing on each switch with routing occuring at each campus?  There will be some vlans that will cross campus boundaries on occassion.

Campus VLAN

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