Difference between a normal Cisco Switch and a Catalyst
Heyy guys!!! You might have heard the name Catalyst Switch or L-3 Switches and you might have a lot of confusion regarding it. so today we will discuss about the difference between a normal Cisco Switch and a Catalyst Switch. Catalyst is the brand-name of Cisco’s most popular series of switches. When someone says they’re using a “Catalyst switch”, it just means that they’re working with a Cisco switch. Other companies have names for their L-3 switches, like HP’s ProCurve or Dell’s PowerConnect. A Layer 2 switch (L-2) does switching only. This means that it uses MAC addresses to switch the packets from a port to the destination port (and only the destination port). It therefore maintains a MAC address table so that it can remember which ports have which MAC address associated. A L3 switch also does switching exactly like a L2 switch. The L3 means that it has an identity from the L3 layer. Practically this means that a L3 switch is capable of having IP addresses an