
Originally Posted by
Marco-D
Its a switch. The hosts are all off vlans that are trunked to the switch from the outside network. Either you have one access vlan for all the blades, or if it supports it, you have trunks and you can then assign the blades to one of the trunked vlans. The switch itself needs a default gateway so you can manage it, but that has nothing to do with connectivity to the blades, since that is all layer 2. The outside network knows how to get to the blades by arping for them in the right vlan, and the blades know how to get to the outside world via an IP and default gateway you set on each blade. Not saying the requirement is not legit, but why do you need a static route to a blade/host, and how would that get to out to your network when there is no routing relationship (ospf, rip, eigrp)? Blade centers should be all layer 2.
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