[c-nsp] Solid L2 switch - 2948G or 3548-XL-EN?

[Skeeve Stevens]

The thing I like about the 3500XL over the 2900XL is that the 3500 can do
dot1q and ISL and we used then quite a bit to bridge between old and new
networks. As far as I could tell the 2900XL's could only do dot1q - well the
models I had access to.

I am about to deploy some 3524XL-EN at the moment as they are still fine
switches for some 100mb interconnects between datacentres.


...Skeeve

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Kell
Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2007 12:25 PM
To: Steve Feldman
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Solid L2 switch - 2948G or 3548-XL-EN?

Steve Feldman wrote:
> No, the 3548XL is layer 2 only.  I think the layer 3 features started
> showing up in the 3550 series switches.
>   

IIRC, the XLs are all L2 only.  The 29nnXLs were strictly 100Mbps while 
the 35nnXLs had Gig (uplinks).

> We still have many of the 3500XL-series switches in use, and we've been
> very happy with them.

We have some XLs of both flavors.  The only "really annoying" old ones 
are the 4Mb 2900XLs - they can't trunk (other than uplinks).

Wasn't the 2948G the odd one that could do L3, but only the uplinks?  or 
was that a 49xx?  Never had either one.

Jeff
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