Buy or Renew
Buy or Renew
Cisco + Splunk: It’s a new day for your data. Learn more.
 
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
cancel
Start a conversation
233
Views
5
Helpful
1
Replies

VLANs and Layer3 switching

patuba
Level 1
Level 1

‎02-13-2003 02:22 PM - edited ‎03-02-2019 05:05 AM

Can someone please explain the difference between VLANs and Layer 3 switching. I'm confused to what's different between them.

Labels:
0 Helpful
1 Reply 1

donewald
Level 6
Level 6

‎02-13-2003 03:01 PM

VLANs is a grouping of ports that would make up one BCAST ( Layer 2 ) domain. They can contain one to 100's of ports (user defined). To get from one VLAN to another you need a routing (L3) function. L3 Switching term is used mostly to define a HW speed mechanism, instead of SW based forwarding used in most routers, to get a Packet routed, based on Layer 3 (IP/IPX/etc) information. MLS path, in the Catalyst switches would be the HW switching path for these packets.

Hope this clarifies,

Don

Customers Also Viewed These Support Documents