2960g upgrade to 12.2.58 Lan Base or 15.0.2 SE11 Lan Lite

[Michael Curtis]

Hi,

I have an old 2960g 8 port switch - WS-C2960G-8TC-L. Today I was trying to set up SSH access and found that the firmware doesn't support it. I believe 12.2.58-SE2 will support SSH. While on the Cisco downloads page I see the switch also has 15.0.2.SE11 available. The version 12 firmware is Lan Base and v15 is Lan Lite. Which is the best version to install? Currently I am running 12.2(35)SE5, C2960-LANBASE-M.

Any advice would be most welcome.

Best wishes

Michael

[Philip D'Ath]

I would probably go with the gold star release for that platform, 12.2.55-SE12.  As long as it has "k9" in the name it should support SSH.

[Leo Laohoo]

LAN Base IOS and LAN Lite are NOT compatible. If the switch is loaded with LAN Base, then download the LAN Base IOS from the Cisco website.
Don't forget to read the Release Notes.

[syrehan]

I would suggest that you go for the image which has "k9"mentioned in it. That image will have ssh support. This is a common rule of thumb.I wouldn't recommend you to go for the Lan lite IOS. Make it a practice of using Lan Base as a minimum since Lan lite only offers a subset of the features of Lan Base.

Hope to help.