Overview
Today's campus networks have moved quickly to incorporate switching technologies for improving bandwidth. Multilayer switching (MLS) is an important emerging technology that combines the best of switching and routing, bringing new levels of performance and scalability to campus networks. In the light of changing traffic patterns and increasing loads being placed on the networks to access centralized resources and server farms, it becomes imperative for the platforms used in the campus design to provide appropriate Layer 3 performance.

This chapter, includes the following topics:

  • Multilayer Switching Fundamentals
  • Configuring Multilayer Switch Route Processor
  • Applying Flow Masks
  • Configuring the Multilayer Switching
  • MLS Switch Engine
  • MLS Topology Examples