RouterBOARD hardware • Switch advice, CSS610 poe and CRS310 together

I was thinking of ordering two switches.
CSS610-8P-2S+IN and CRS310-8G+2S+IN
My plan is connect them together via a 1m DAC cable on one of their SFP+ ports.

I want the CSS610 switch as a complement to the CRS310.
Mostly because of PoE+ and also the easy SwOS Lite.

The usage is both for learning and also SDVoE, AVoIP and multicast image/cloning deployment via CloneZilla or FOG
Decoders and Encoders uses PoE.

Will be in a lab enviroinment.

There are some network feature support requirements for this on the switch which are
non-blocking Layer 3 managed switch
IGMP Snooping
IGMP Snooping fast leave
IGMP Querier
Dynamic multicast router port
Forwarding unknown multicast
Green or energy-saving feature (disabled)
VLAN
Multicast forwarding or filtering
The absolute minimum requirement is that the switch support jumbo framing, i.e. a layer 2 MTU > 9000 bytes

I understand that the CRS are layer 3 since it have routing capabilities and that does not the CSS have.
So i cant use the PoE encoders/decoders on the CSS unfortuneatly so i need to use PoE+ injectors for them and use on the CRS.

Statistics: Posted by orfeous — Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:30 pm

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