Hello everyone!
Small issue I would like to get your input on today: I have a VC composed of two 4500 and two 4200. I have another VC composed of one 4500 and one 4200. I have around 300 vlans split in 7 routing instance configured on each VC and they can't be summarized (the guy who did the addressing plan got a piece of my mind.). Because of that, I would like to have OSPF running to share the routes. Each VC has a firewall connected to it that has the firewalling and routing between instances duties. I have created 7 more vlans that are my transport vlans so I don't have to trunk everything.
As of now, I have a trunk with about 90% of my vlans configured on it that is connected to another switch. All those vlans are correctly being advertised in OSPF. But, the remaining 10% don't come up because they are not configured on an interface yet. One of these vlan is going to be my management network. As such, I won't configure it anywhere other than the management interface me0. Since the interface isn't connected to anything, I have to configure the vlan ot a physical interface but I hate that thought and the lo0 interface won't accept being configurer with a vlan (it is understandable..).
So... Any ideas?
Thanks!
Simon