It really depends on how much you know what you are doing, If you stick to: *) IP Routing that would normally "fit" in a vendor switch *) Bridging *) VRFs Y

It really depends on how much you know what you are doing, If you stick to: *) IP Routing that would normally "fit" in a vendor switch *) Bridging *) VRFs You will be fine If you try and do some weird stuff then it's best to check with "ip route" to see if it was actually installed into hardware or not, but I would simply not do anything weird on such hardware