The following switches are layer 3 switches. www.dell.com/.../data-center-layer3 With these switches you can expedite traffic based on L2 or L3 information, such as IP QoS. They however don’t have the ability to specify layer 2 or layer 3 by specific port.
Hi Guys I was wondering if anyone could advise on whether there is a powerconnect switch model, that accomodates settings ports as L3 ports (vs L2). in force10, you can do this via no switchport & ip address, commands in juniper, you can do this via family inet vs family-ethernet-switching stanzas. similarly, is there any powerconnect model that can allow the same to be done ? (Please note i am not referring to L3 vlan interfaces. rather, settings ports themselves as L3 [vs L2]) any input, much appreciated. thanks 
L3 interfaces on switchports 