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IPv4 and IPv6 static routing on Cisco Catalyst Switches 2960 Series

apereira3
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Hello,

Do Cisco Catalyst Switches 2960S and 2960X perform IPv4 and IPv6 static routing?

I found that only the Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR Series with the IP-Lite feature set implements IPv4 and IPv6 static routing.                                                

Is correct this information?

Thank you!

 

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Ashok Kumar
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi , 

Catalyst Switches 2960S and 2960X doesn't perform IPv4/IPv6 routing. It's not a software/IOS feature, it's separate hardware.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR IP-Lite is a the different hardware, if you have this exact hardware, you can run the L3 IP routing as stated below: 

Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR IP-Lite High-Performance Routing

The Cisco hardware routing architecture delivers extremely high-performance IP routing in the Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR IP-Lite Switches:

   IP unicast routing protocols (Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 1 [RIPv1], RIPv2, RIPng, and EIGRP-Stub)are supported for network routing applications.

   Advanced IP unicast routing protocols (OSPF for Routed Access) are supported for load balancing and constructing scalable LANs. IPv6 routing (OSPFv3) is supported in hardware for maximum performance.

   EIGRPv3-Stub and PIMv6-Stub are supported as a part of the IPv6 routing suite.

   Equal-cost routing facilitates Layer 3 load balancing and redundancy across the stack.

   Policy-based routing (PBR) allows superior control by facilitating flow redirection regardless of the routing protocol configured (for both IPv4 and IPv6).

   Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) provides dynamic load balancing and failover for routed links.

   Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP multicast is supported, including PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM), PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), PIM sparse-dense mode and Source Specific Multicast (SSM).

 

- Ashok

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Ashok Kumar
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi , 

Catalyst Switches 2960S and 2960X doesn't perform IPv4/IPv6 routing. It's not a software/IOS feature, it's separate hardware.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR IP-Lite is a the different hardware, if you have this exact hardware, you can run the L3 IP routing as stated below: 

Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR IP-Lite High-Performance Routing

The Cisco hardware routing architecture delivers extremely high-performance IP routing in the Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR IP-Lite Switches:

   IP unicast routing protocols (Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 1 [RIPv1], RIPv2, RIPng, and EIGRP-Stub)are supported for network routing applications.

   Advanced IP unicast routing protocols (OSPF for Routed Access) are supported for load balancing and constructing scalable LANs. IPv6 routing (OSPFv3) is supported in hardware for maximum performance.

   EIGRPv3-Stub and PIMv6-Stub are supported as a part of the IPv6 routing suite.

   Equal-cost routing facilitates Layer 3 load balancing and redundancy across the stack.

   Policy-based routing (PBR) allows superior control by facilitating flow redirection regardless of the routing protocol configured (for both IPv4 and IPv6).

   Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) provides dynamic load balancing and failover for routed links.

   Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP multicast is supported, including PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM), PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), PIM sparse-dense mode and Source Specific Multicast (SSM).

 

- Ashok

Ok,

Thank you Ashok Kumar!

Welcome! :) Have a nice day

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