C1000 Switch Does not have EIGRP Option?

[neribm001]

I'm racking my brains trying to figure out why, a Cisco product do not have EIGRP as an option for the router command. I am trying to implement EIGRP OTP to simplify our network, does anyone have any ideas how to enable the feature or does the C1000 does not have that option as a routing protocol?

[marce1000]

                     - A switch is not a router, you need to look at router products for that , 

 M.

[Richard Burts]

In general I would not agree with @marce1000 that a switch is not a router. There are many switches that operate as layer 3 switches and do routing. But in this particular case he is sort of right. Quoting from the product data sheet about C1000 "Cisco® Catalyst® 1000 Series Switches are fixed managed Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet enterprise-class Layer 2 switches". So this particular switch does not have layer 3 capability.

[neribm001]

I agree, I posted the question to determine why ISIS and RIP are options but EIGRP is not. I was hoping someone may have run into this issue before.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

RIPv1 (sometimes RIPv2 too) is often offered with base versions (if dynamic routing supported at all).

IS-IS, though, is a surprise.

Just looked at the C1000's datasheet.  How many IPv4 and IPv6 routes can be handled are mentioned, no mention of any dynamic routing protocols.

Q&A has:

Q.  What Layer 3 functionality do the Cisco Catalyst 1000 switches support?

A.  These switches support static routing.

IOS configuration guide describes how to configure RIP, but also has this note:

Note	The device supports 16 static routes (including user-configured routes and the default route) and any directly connected routes and default routes for the management interface.

[neribm001]

It performs L3 routing, but limited to ISIS, RIP or static. So it is capable of L3 routing.

[Leo Laohoo]

Catalyst 1000 is a layer 2 only switch.  

[neribm001]

No true, it is configure with static routing and it has options for ISIS and RIP. I inherited the network and want to simplify with EIGRP OTP.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Cannot say regarding the C1000, although "pure" L2 switches, as described by others, don't offer any routing capabilities, some "L2" switches, though, provide a very limited routing capability, such as supporting a few static route statements or perhaps some form of dynamic routing protocol "stub" support (e.g. for EIGRP).  Note - such support might also vary per actual model within a series.

Other switches are sold as "L3" switches and these, besides supporting all "L2" switch features, may offer routing capabilities as "good" (or nearly as good) as a router.  Further, such switches might be offered with models with different feature levels where routing capabilities depend on the "level", e.g. a "Lite" switch might only support static routing and RIP.  Or, possibly, some switches will support feature licenses, where you'll need a "better" license to support EIGRP.