[afnog] layer 3 switch to act layer 2 switch

[Keith Ndenga]

Richard,

I believe the whole point of a layer 3 switch is that it has routing 
capabilities i.e. acts as a router. If you want to disable this then I 
guess you can just type the command:

no ip routing

Regards,
Keith

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> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:26:45 +0300
> From: Richard Zulu <richardzulu at gmail.com>
> To: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: [afnog] Catalyst 4908G-L3 layer 2 switching
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> Hello,
> 
> Anyone have an idea on how best i can configure my Catalyst 4908-L3
> layer 3 switch to act as a layer 2 switch
> 
> 
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> Have you tried Google trader?
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:41:36 +0300
> From: Bernard Wanyama <bwanyama at syntechug.com>
> To: Richard Zulu <richardzulu at gmail.com>
> Cc: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Catalyst 4908G-L3 layer 2 switching
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> Richard,
> 
> I would imagine that you need to just do the following:
> 
> - Create two vlans, aside from the default vlan 1, e.g. vlan200 and
> vlan300
> - Assign all the used ports to vlan200
> - Assign all the unused ports to vlan300 and shut them down
> administrately
> - Designate one or more trunk ports to other switches.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Bernard
> 
> 2010/1/18 Richard Zulu <richardzulu at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Anyone have an idea on how best i can configure my Catalyst 4908-L3
> > layer 3 switch to act as a layer 2 switch
> >
> >
> > --
> > Check out my Blog:
> > http://i-sakaza.blogspot.com
> >
> > Have you tried Google trader?
> > http://www.google.co.ug/africa/trader
> >
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