From: Benjamin Hickey (bhickey@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 19:23:08 GMT-3
I have customers using versions of 6.x CatOS quite happily. 7 is due out at
the end of the month. Not sure of MSFC IOS off the top of my head.
Theoretically no performance impact with IDS blades on the switch. It looks
at traffic straight off the bus backplane. VACLs are recommend to filter
traffic you want to scan as the IDS blade can not see all traffic on a busy
6XXX.
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Bill Carter
Sent: 17 October 2001 17:01
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: CAT OS or native IOS on Catalyst ?
Side question on the 6500 in hybrid mode. What versions of CatOS and IOS
has anyone found to be good and stable. I have 2 6500 w/ MSFC II and PFC II
that need IP/IPX support.
Any experiences with the IDS blades?? How well do they work and what is the
performance impact on the switch? These are going in the core of a network
with 250 remote office and 4000 IPX SAPs and 300 ip subnets in the routing
table. 7206's connect to the WAN, 6500 will be Ethernet only.
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Bill Carter
CCIE 5022
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Rick Foltz
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:41 AM
To: Tom Holloway; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: CAT OS or native IOS on Catalyst ?
The 6500 can run in three modes, depending on what IOS is being used. They
can run in nativa catalyst mode with no MSFC. They can run in hybrid mode
with the regular catalyst OS on the supervisor and cisco IOS on the MFSC,
and they can run in IOS mode where the Catalyst uses the Cisco IOS and all
ports are routed ports, basically a router with alot of interfaces. It all
depends on what you want to use the switch for and what system images have
been loaded on them.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Tom Holloway
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:09 AM
To: 'Yifan (Eric) Wang'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: CAT OS or native IOS on Catalyst ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yifan (Eric) Wang [SMTP:yifan@optonline.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:24 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: CAT OS or native IOS on Catalyst ?
>
> hi ! Sometimes when I connect to a Cat 6500 switch, it is running CAT OS
> while sometimes another 6500 is running native IOS.
> 1. how does that happen ?
[Tom Holloway] 6000 and 6500 switches with pfc and msfc fitted
supervisors can run either catos or IOS
> 2. From what release Cat 6500 starts to run IOS only ?
[Tom Holloway] it can run either, see 1
> 3. can we choose to run CAT OS or IOS on a switch ?
[Tom Holloway] see 1
> 4. In native IOS, can we do everything we can in CAT OS ?
[Tom Holloway] in catos mode the 6xxx's are 'traditional' layer
three switches, i.e. routing switches. in native IOS mode they become
switching routers, like the cat 2948gl3, every port can be a routed port.
> thanks !
>
> Eric Wang
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