[nsp] While where on the topic of 6500 series.

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> I've found hybrid much better if you are using the 6500 to do a lot of
> switching on the device.  You simply trunk a VLAN to port 15/1 to get it
> to the "router" side of the switch and then build your vlan interface
> there if need be.  Mostly I find CatOS a better interface for Layer2
> management than IOS.

And we use native for both L2 and L3 (including FlexWAN). It works
very well for us. Never having had a large CatOS switch setup, it
felt quite natural to use native for everything.

Cisco have some web pages with feature comparisons of native and
hybrid - these should be studied carefully.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no