My 3220s are connected via 1Gbps copper lines to the core switch. The Aruba 6405 core switch has dual 10Gbps fiber connections to each IDF and a lot of our traffic is internal - going between VLANs for printing, connecting to projectors, etc. I figured there was no sense in forcing most of the traffic down a shared 1Gbps pipe. But your reply got me to thinking, and it seems my core switch can do DHCP service much more easily than futzing around with virtual interfaces and virtual routes to use a single interface. The core switch already has all the VLANs and does the layer 3 routing, so adding a DHCP scope to each VLAN is much easier than doing voodoo on the 3220s.
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