L2/L3 Switch

[rodneygilliard]

Hi, can someone recommend for me a low cost 24-port fast-ethernet cisco switch that has L2 and L3 functionality for creating VLANs and routing internally between VLANs and routing externally.

Thanks in advance.

[ankbhasi]

Hi Friend,

Because you asked for a single switch which can work as L2 and L3 both, the starting siwtch model will be 3560

Have a look at this link

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5528/index.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5528/products_data_sheet09186a00801f3d7d.html

But incase you just want a basic l2 feature the lowest model will be CE500 switch

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6545/index.html

HTH

Ankur

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[rodneygilliard]

Thank you.

[paolo bevilacqua · Accepted solution]

Absolutely. Note, some features are only in "IP services" or better image. But L3 and basic routing are in all images.

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[walleyewiz]

It would be a good idea to compare IPBASE and IPSERVICES to make sure you won't need something down the road. For example, multicast routing is not supported in IPBASE.