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

[Michael Smith]

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You could use the 2940 series as well.

Mike

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> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Bradley Urberg Carlson
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 9:49 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] WIC-4ESW world's smallest Catalyst?
> 
> 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
> 
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