| System default (no license required) | Comprehensive Layer 2 feature set: VLAN, IEEE 802.1Q trunking, Link
Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), Unidirectional Link Detection
(UDLD; Standard and Aggressive), Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
(MSTP), Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and Spanning Tree
Protocol guard Security: Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA),
Access Control Lists (ACLs), storm control, and configurable
Control-Plane Policing (CoPP) Management features: CIS CO Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)
support, Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2) access, CIS CO Discovery
Protocol, SNMP, syslog, and IEEE 1588 PTP Monitoring features: Advanced buffer monitoring, SPAN, and ERSPAN |
| Base license | Layer 3 IP routing: Inter-VLAN Routing (IVR), static routes,
Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), ACLs, Open Shortest
Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2; limited to 256 routes), Enhanced
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) stub, Hot Standby Router
Protocol (HSRP), and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Multicast: Protocol-Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM),
Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Multicast Source Discovery
Protocol (MSDP) |
| LAN Enterprise license (N3548-LAN1K9, N3524-LAN1K9); requires Base
license | Advanced Layer 3 IP routing: OSPFv2, EIGRP, Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP), and Virtual Routing and Forwarding Lite (VRF-Lite) |
