Thinking of getting one of those 8-port 2960 for a CCNP study. Is the difference between the C2960-8TC-S and the C2960-8TC-L models in Hardware, or in IOS? or both? And if it's in IOS, is the S upgradable to L?

I can't seam to find some decent info about it.

They area slightly different hardware wise and therefore cannot be upgraded at a later time.

The -S means 'LAN Lite' and the -L means 'LAN Base'

The Lite/-S is the more basic device and can't do some of the more advanced features of the LAN Base model (like QoS).

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Thanks allot davidrothera, Thats what I wanted to know



And thats why I couldn't find any thing, I was googling wrong

I would recommend getting a 3550 off ebay and some 2950s..

3560 if you want to do private vlans, 3550 doesn't do them. Just a FYI

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Thanks guys, I already have a 3550 and a 2950 at home. I need a small switch to practice at work along with my other 2950. Besides I live outside US and shipping those heavy 24/48 ports ends up costing much more than their price at ebay. The newer 8 ports would eventually cost nearly the same.

I finally settled for an 8 port 3560

And IPv6 and the QoS is completely different. But these few things can be done on rack rentals while 95% of everything else can be done on much cheaper 3550s

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You'll love that one. Good choice.

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