[c-nsp] RAMs at Catalyst

Saku Ytti saku+cisco-nsp at ytti.fi
Fri Apr 22 03:33:43 EDT 2005


On (2005-04-22 09:11 +0200), sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

> > > The 3560 is basically a slightly stripped down 3750. Just to confuse
> > > the customers, Cisco calls it 3560 which lead a lot of people to
> > > think it is "just like a 3550 only a bit better".
> > 
> >  AFAIK it's 3750 without stackwise. I found annoying corner case where
> > you might not be able to replace 3550 with 3560/3750, 3550-12G supports
> > MTU 2000 and this is supported in L2 and L3. While 3560/3750 support 
> > only up to 1546 in L3.
> >  I'm quite displeased that this isn't advertised very clearly and your
> > account team probably isn't aware of this as mostly it seems TAC doesn't
> > know it.
> 
>It also lacks Multi-VRF CE (VRF-Lite) which 3550 has.

Fortunately this is temporary problem, going to be fixed Real Soon Now(tm), 
the MTU problem _seems_ to be in hardware (I haven't got definitive answer
really). 

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