From: Salau,Olayemi (Olayemi.Salau@southampton.gov.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 11:04:36 ART
Hello Mohamed,
I would say 4 switches gives more flexibility to 2, you can still do
most of the things on 2 but with 4, you have more flexibility like
configuring certain etherchannel protocols on a link and another type on
the other etherchannel links. Also Cisco gives more Switching Tasks to
eat up our time within the Lab, you can timely deal with 2 Switches, but
now that you have to do most of all the switching tasks on 4, well ...
then I pray the Cisco God be with us ... afterall ... this is CCIE R&S
and not CCIE Routing Certification.
Things like private-vlan also, I seriously doubt if you can configure
private-vlans on Cat2950 with IOS 12.1(22) EA7; but 3560 can do this
using IOS 12.2(25) SEE the later ones. Consider things like IPv6
Routing, FallBack Bridging, HSRP(normal), IP Unicast & Multicast
Routing, VLAN Map Filtering ... These are switching concepts that I
don't think is capable with 2950 ... again I'm only speaking from my own
personal experience ... these are not categorical facts.
The catch here is the IOS, maybe there is a cisco IOS that you can
install on 2950 which gives some capabilities like Private-Vlans, but
what I know is, you don't want to go into the lab without at least the
knowledge of all these newly supported switching technologies.
But if all you want is do some basic Switching functionalities, then
2950 will be good enough ... at least for budget's sake
Many Thanks
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