Thanks Reuben, excellent post. Dan.
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-cisco-...@reub.net> wrote: > On 7/07/2012 11:45 AM, Dan Letkeman wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Looking at replacing a 3750G-12S-12 with an ME-3600X-24FS-M. I have >> never used or seen a 3600x, and I was wondering for the basic switch >> services does it have the same command line options. Just doing dot1q >> trunking, maybe some qos marking, rstp, eigrp, etherchannel, and some >> simple ipv4 acls. >> >> Thanks to anyone who can comment. > > > Yes, generally speaking the same command line options apply. It's still > 15.S IOS code in both. > > However note that the hardware between the 3750G and 3600X is totally and > completely different though (the ME3600X hardware is much much better). The > software follows different trains too but like most IOS it still has more or > less the same command line options. > > Notable points/things that you may run into: > > - No VTP (although I'd never use VTP in an SP environment anyway so that's > not a bad thing) > > - VLAN interfaces and trunk ports can be configured the same as a normal > enterprise switch if you want to, however you will gain a lot of very cool > flexibility by configuring your trunks/customer facing ports using EVC's > instead. So take the plunge and set things up the EVC way where possible > from day dot, as it'll allow you to take advantage of many of the metro > ethernet edge features that this platform has to offer that you don't get on > a switch like the 3750G. Plus it'll give you per-service-instance counters. > The VLAN interface counters on this platform don't populate with the total > traffic flow (same as the 3750G), but the service instances /do/ have > counters which allow per-vlan and in turn per-EVC graphs to be generated. > QoS and ACLs can be applied on EVCs as well. > > - From memory the units do not ship with any power supplies. Check before > you place the order :-) > > But otherwise, everything you've listed is easily do-able and shouldn't > present any problems, and you should be able to copy and paste config across > between the two units with few surprises. > > Having run these switches for over a year now in production, I really like > them and I wouldn't want to ever go back to making do with 3750s in my > network core or edge. > > Reuben > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/