Hey everyone, I'm trying to eliminate the last standard Cisco switch in my environment. I need to find 8 10gbps ports to do so. I have 6 available on my core stack of MS250s but that's it. My MX250, which the core stack is connected to, has 6 open SFP+ ports on it now though. Is there any reason not to connect, say, ESXi hosts to the firewall directly with a static route to just forward all of the traffic to the core stack one hop away? Is that dumb even if it would work?
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