[Michael HeathParticipant]

I definitely didn’t realize the layer 2 topology was so simple and unseperated. Great to know.

One quick followup, after reading the post you linked: we have a Dante expansion card on our mixrack. We are only using the dedicated Dante port (as opposed to what they have labeled as, I believe, something like Dante+control). Is this port bridged to the other ports, or dedicated to Dante interface only?

Our Dante network is 100% separated from our house network for performance and reliability purposes. While one bridge point wouldn’t be the end of the world (it’s a different subnet and VLAN), I’d like to avoid it if possible. I know with most other Dante certified products, the Dante port is truly dedicated for Dante access.

[Michael HeathParticipant]

Thanks, that clears up a lot.

I know that the broadcast traffic is not “a lot”, but as I was doing some cleanup and analysis it really surprised me to find that the C3500 was my single biggest broadcast device on the network. I just wanted to get a better feel on what was expected, and the readily available tech documentation made it sound like expected traffic was much lower than you described.

I definitely agree on the VLAN segmentation; I had just been slow because it requires some additional complicated configuration if, for example, I want to make sure iPads on our WiFi using the app can discover and connect fine. But I think I’m going to move forward with that this week.

I was surprised to hear about only having one end of the C3500-gigACE-Mixrack connected to the network. I think it may be setup this way. I definitely wasn’t seeing traffic that seemed to show a loop, but this may explain some performance issues.

Thanks for your help!

[Michael HeathParticipant]

This is the main AHNet connection; there’s a separate dedicated GigACE link to the mix rack.

It’s part of a large house of worship network, a /21 subnet. Currently there’s not much segmenting it off. But like I said, this is broadcast traffic originating from the console…..Why would there be so much?

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