Catalyst 2960-l layer 3 support confusion

[john.nield1]

Hi

Needs some help please  as documentation is driving me nuts. Can anyone confirm the following;

I need a 8 port switch that supports routing between 2 SVI’s and a default route for customer deployments. The data sheet says the catalyst 2960-l with lanlite supports ‘basic layer 3’ features including RIP and static routing, however the faq says layer 3 is not supported. Will the 2960-l fulfil these requirements? Links are below;

datasheet

https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-2960-l-series-switches/datasheet-c78-737665.html

Release notes 15.2.6

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960l/software/15-2_6_e/release_note/rn-1526e-2960l.html

regards

John

[balaji.bandi]

Real world not worked with ip lite, as per the documentation of cisco it only support most of the  L2 features.

[john.nield1 · Accepted solution]

Cisco GVE support confirmed that the catalyst 2960-l does basic layer 3 ipv4 routing.

******answer from GVE******

Sorry for confusion on our external documents. On this part I confirmed that the information on our data sheet is correct as I double checked with our internal resources. Cisco Catalyst 2960-L can support basic layer 3 including which will provide Routing Information Protocol (RIP) for IPv4 and IPv6 and static routing.