[c-nsp] New Cisco Switch?

[Antonio Querubin]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, John Neiberger wrote:

> Yeah, pretty much. :)  The latest IOS you can get for those is
> 12.0(5)WC11. And since they're refurbished you have to get them
> inspected, at a hefty cost, before you can get SmartNET contracts on
> them. If my only two options were a refurbished 3548XL and an HP
> ProCurve 2950 then I'm definitely buying the HP switch. You get 48-ports
> of 10/100, two built-in 1000BaseT uplinks, two GBIC slots, lots and lots
> of features, three interfaces (CLI, menu, and web-based GUI), some Cisco
> features like CDP, TACACS+, and Fast Etherchannel, lifetime warranty
> with next-day replacement, free software upgrades, and free support, all
> for $900.
>
> Which  would you choose? :)

Don't the ProCurves have a severe limit on number of supported VLANs
(around 32 or so) or has that limit been changed recently?