Cisco 2960-XR switch, Inter-Vlan routing

[lili Vachon]

Dear All,

As cisco 2960-XR router has IP-Lite image, which also  supports routing. Does it also supports communication between two different Vlans without the requirement of separate router ? Please let me know. Waiting for your response. Thank you.

[Charles Hill · Accepted solution]

Yes, a 2960-XR switch will route between vlans, being a layer 3 switch.

However ip routing is disabled by default and would need to be enabled.

The following link lists the features of a Cisco 2960-XR switch.

A Cisco 2960-XR switch does support layer 3 dynamic routing (rip1, ospf2).

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-2960-x-series-switches/feature-comparison-c83-731053.pdf

Hope this helps,

if so, please rate.

[lili Vachon]

Hi Cehill,

Yes, it does support basic routing with IP-Lite Image and we call it as Layer-3 switch. But cannot find any article from cisco which mention it supports Inter-vlan routing. Does it support Inter-vlan routing without the requirement of separate router?

[Jon Marshall]

If it supports routing then it should support routing between vlans.

See this link -

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960xr/software/15-0_2_EX1/routing/configuration_guide/b_rt_152ex1_2960-xr_cg/b_rt_152ex1_2960-xr_cg_chapter_011.html

where it specifies which interface types can be used for routing and note it includes SVIs.

Jon

[Charles Hill]

According to the configuration guide, you can assign an ip address to an SVI, so yes you should be able to route between vlans.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960xr/software/15-2_3_e/consolidated_guide/b_1523e_consolidated_2960xr_cg.pdf