[c-nsp] 3550 Switches

Andrew Fort afort at choqolat.org
Sun Aug 8 22:25:24 EDT 2004


Paul Stewart wrote:
> Why the 3550-12T version and not a 3550-24-EMI for example?  Is there a
> difference besides 100/1000 on the ports?  This is for low bandwidth (total
> of maybe 20 Mb/s at the entire site)...
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul

One thing that may effect you depending on your application: 3550-12* 
support 2K (i.e., 2000) byte MTU (-24* models only support 1546 max 
mtu).   I think the total (T)CAM resources available (numbers of MAC 
addresses, routes, etc possible) may also be different?

cheers,
andrew


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