Cisco Catalyst Family Feature Comparison (continued)
Fixed-Conguration Switches
Model/Series Catalyst 3560 Catalyst 2960
LAN Switching Features
Connectivity and Filtering
EtherChannel
®
/802.3ad • •
Jumbo Frames—GbE on Copper L2 only L2 only
Jumbo Frames—GbE on Fiber L2 only L2 only
Broadcast Suppression • •
Multicast Suppression • •
Unicast Flood Suppression
Flexible Packet Matching
Layer 2
ISL/802.1Q • 802.1Q only
Private VLAN Edge • •
Private VLAN •
Voice VLAN • •
VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) • •
GVRP
GARP
URT/VMPS • •
VTP v3
VTP Bomb Protection
VMPS Server
Number of Active VLANs 1005 255
Number of VLAN IDs 4096 4096
Layer 3
H/W-based MPLS/EoMPLS
EIGRP IP Services
EIGRP Stub IP Base
VPLS/H-VPLS
MPLS L3 VPNs
MPLS Trafc Engineering (TE)
OSPF IP Services
BGP IP Services
Catalyst 2940 Catalyst Express
• •
• •
•
802.1Q only 802.1Q only
•
• •
• Transparent Mode only
•
128 32
4096 1005
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