Show SDM Prefer

You may have had trouble trying to enable IP Routing on your switch and later discovered that you had the default template enabled after executing show sdm prefer as seen below.

Switch#show sdm prefer
The current template is “default” template.
The selected template optimizes the resources in
the switch to support this level of features for
0 routed interfaces and 255 VLANs.

number of unicast mac addresses: 8K
number of IPv4 IGMP groups + multicast routes: 0.25K
number of IPv4 unicast routes: 0.375k
number of directly-connected IPv4 hosts: 0.375k
number of indirect IPv4 routes: 0
number of IPv6 multicast groups: 0.25K
number of IPv6 unicast routes: 0.25K
number of directly-connected IPv6 addresses: 0.25K
number of indirect IPv6 unicast routes: 0
number of IPv4 policy based routing aces: 0
number of IPv4/MAC qos aces: 0.375k
number of IPv4/MAC security aces: 0.375k
number of IPv6 policy based routing aces: 0
number of IPv6 qos aces: 60
number of IPv6 security aces: 0.125k


Switch#show sdm prefer
The current template is “lanbase-routing” template.
The selected template optimizes the resources in
the switch to support this level of features for
0 routed interfaces and 255 VLANs.

number of unicast mac addresses: 4K
number of IPv4 IGMP groups + multicast routes: 0.25K
number of IPv4 unicast routes: 0.875k
number of directly-connected IPv4 hosts: 0.875k
number of indirect IPv4 routes: 16
number of IPv6 multicast groups: 0.25K
number of IPv6 unicast routes: 0.75K
number of directly-connected IPv6 addresses: 0.75K
number of indirect IPv6 unicast routes: 16
number of IPv4 policy based routing aces: 0
number of IPv4/MAC qos aces: 0.375k
number of IPv4/MAC security aces: 0.375k
number of IPv6 policy based routing aces: 0
number of IPv6 qos aces: 0.125k
number of IPv6 security aces: 0.25K

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