Hi Arsalan, for inter vlan routing, you need a L3 device. so the answer is No. Laptop A will not ping Laptop B however, your can connect this switch to a router or L3 switches and perform the inter vlan routing. Hope this clarifies. Regards, Kapil...

Hi John,Can you please share the 2960x switch configuration for reference. Just to mention that you cann't ping this switch from 2960s switch if both are working in layer 2 mode. Also enable debuging on 2960x switch with "debug ip icmp" command and t...

Hi Ron,There are several ways to design your network and i can further help if you can share more information about your network devices models, their capabilities (L2, L3) etc. I am enclosing a sample topology diagram for your reference but again th...

Hi Ron,it’s not recommended to have everything hooked onto one core switch. An ideal network should have redundancy built in. I suggest you to have a collapse backbone model wherein you can combine Core & Distribution functionality on core switches. ...