Switch 3750G and 3560G and IPSEC

[mahesh18]

Hi Everyone,

Need to confirm if switches below

Cisco WS-C3560G-48PS-S Catalyst 35600G 48PT 10/100/1000T 4 SFP 

or

Cisco WS-C3750G-24TS-S Catalyst Switch 4 x SFP

Do they support IPSEC VPN?

Regards

MAhesh

[Leo Laohoo]

If you want to do IPSec then you'll need to have a router, a VPN appliance or a firewall.  

[mahesh18]

Hi Leo,

I have 3550 switch which has ipsec tunnel to cisco 1811 router.

So thats why i was curious if it this switch can also support ipsec?

Regards

MAhesh

[Leo Laohoo]

Switches are Layer 2-only.  They don't understand what IPSec.  

Only routers, VPN appliances and firewalls understand what IPSec and IP Sec runs between these three.  

[Parvesh Paliwal · Accepted solution]

Dear Leo,

What if the switch is an L3  and routing is configured ?

Mahesh,

What I can understand is you may need specific IOS versions and licenses from cisco for this.

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Parvesh

[mahesh18]

Hi Parvesh,

Thanks for replying to the question.

Regards

MAhesh

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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If you mean do they support IPSec VPN termination, no they do not.

If you mean will they forward IPSec VPN packets, they do.