[c-nsp] WIC-4ESW world's smallest Catalyst?

[robbie]

Bradley Urberg Carlson wrote:
> I have need of a really small switch, say 2 10/100 trunk ports to 
> separate Catalysts, and one 10/100 uplink to a C3640.  From some 
> snippets of config I've seen, it appears as though the WIC-4ESW is a 
> sort-of 5-port "Cat-on-a-card," and I was wondering if I might use such 
> a WIC in the 3640, instead of using a Catalyst switch external to the 
> C3640.
> 
> I'm wondering whether the 4ESW ports can be configured as trunk ports to 
> other switches, with the WIC card acting as just another switch in a STP 
> mesh.
> 
> I'm unable to find any inter-port performance info on the WIC.  Has 
> anyone tried running line-rate between switched WIC ports (that is, 
> traffic which is switched between trunk ports, rather than being routed 
> at layer 3 by the host router)?
> 
> BTW, I would need to configure a few dozen VLANs on the "uplink" 
> pseudo-port into the host C3640, with per VLAN rate-limit, QoS and 
> occaisionally an access-list.
> 
> Bradley


http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps221/products_data_sheet09186a00801c749d.html

The WIC-4ESW is supported only on the 1700 series.

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cheers,
robbie