Router on a stick vs Layer 3 switching

We're going to be jumping into the world of Layer 3 switching soon! Here's a little presentation on the difference between router on a stick (most small deployments) and Layer 3 switching. Enjoy!

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[justinrutledge]

Willie, are we going to see any Grandstream layer 3 switching videos? I would be very interested.

[KAROGRP]

Hi, I just did this with PFsense and Cisco 4948 switch. My best move yet! So the Cisco switch handles VLANs, Gateway addresses, and inter-vlan routing for all ubiquiti connected WLAN sites. Now even if internet or the PFsense router goes down, all business systems are still up and running. I can reboot PFsense all frickin day long now, and no issue with internal messaging, VoIP systems, billing, shared file folders, etc, etc.... Wish I knew this much earlier. This should be the absolute standard now. Oh, and I'm also using Windows 2022 DHCP server across all Vlans. Since I made this move, the entire network is much faster and stable. The only issue left to resolve is the consistent interference on the congested 5ghz band, and we're looking at eith 11Ghz or 16Ghz to finally sirt this issue out, which means we'll be able to now build out gigabit connections to hotels for IPTV transport streams.

[alonzosmith]

Great explanation of the difference. Looking forward to the additional videos.

[Luc]

Thanks again Willie for a very interesting video. Looking foward to learn about the layer 3 switch.😀

[FoXtac]

Another great video and explanation, Willie. Eager to see the coming videos!

[lakeview]

Few years back i setup a layer 3 cisvo 6513 core fibre module to layer 2 switching, has a PON connected into as well. Had quite a few VLANS setup and use of VRF connecting to cisco contrxt based ASA stareful firewalls.

[donaldhunt]

Great video, I subscribed, keep them coming!

[Monsicek]

Hello Willie, looking forward to content. What happened to the small business configuration series, I think it had some basic VLAN configs and then went MIA. Do you plan to finish it?

[rogerjones]

Hi Willie - great video as always. I have a ubiquiti USW-Aggregation switch with 2 10GbE devices and 3 2.5GbE laptops. The connection to the router (UDM-SE) is 1 Gbe. But I get superfast file transfers between the devices on the USW-Aggregation. All devices are on the same VLAN. So does that mean that the file transfer traffic is not going up to the Router and hence isn't being throttle by the 1 GbE link?

[tokoiaoben]

What if you have 10 trunk link between your router and L2 ?switch

[jhippl]

but i am spending super high amounts on switches and i still dont route on them, i route on at the edge.