IOS Licensing

Hello Boris

For Cisco switches, there are four general categories: LAN Lite, LAN Base, IP Base, and IP Services. Each of these increases in features in the order stated. So LAN Base is a superset of LAN Lite, IP Base is a superset of LAN Base, and so on. In order to get the full details of the differences between them, you can take a look at the Cisco feature navigator.

In general, LAN Lite has some layer 2 features such as VLANs, STP, trunks, DTP, and VTP, but doesn’t support private VLANs for example. It has no Layer 3 functionality at all, and is capable of very basic security and QoS features. LAN base on the other hand has support for a redundant power system (RPS), Layer 2 to 4 ACLs, DHCP snooping, as well as 802.1x support. Extensive queuing features for QOS such as policing, class and policy maps, and AutoQoS. It also supports an increased number of VLANs and MLD snooping for IPv6.

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz

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