Luke S Crawford wrote:
Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com writes:
If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you typically get download access to all of the firmware updates.
Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend network, 100M is just fine. A used cisco 3548 is going to set me back around $200. For my frontend, it looks like a fine switch (my only question is... will it handle IPv6? it does vlan tunneling so worst case I use a linux box to route my IPv6.) Getting access to firmware updates is 5x that, every year.
I suspect if you keep the switch in layer 2 mode IPv6 will work just fine, but I wouldn't expect IPv6 layer 3 support from the switch(so don't expect it to be able to act as a router for your IPv6 network, and you may need a separate IPv4 network to manage the switch over IP)
It might work but I wouldn't expect it to.
nate