Re: Catalyst 1201

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 12:14:34 GMT-3


   
OOops. You're right--I was thinking it could trunk, but forgot it was
marketed as a FDDI concentrator.

>The ports in the 1201 are 10Mbps only and can't be trunk. Only the
>uplink (FDDI in the one I have) can be trunk.
>
>
>
> "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net> escreveu:
>
>At 8:26 PM +1100 1/11/02, Nick Shah wrote:
>>Anyone used it ? From what I checked on CCO it has the CAT5K IOS (set/clear
>>based) and I want to use it as an alternative to that. It speaks VLAN's too,
>>and does most of the normal things.
>>
>>Anyone knows of any features that could prevent me from doing somethings in
>>the lab.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Nick
>
>Something to watch for is the particular VLAN protocols supported.
>We just went through this after installing some newer 36xx boxen that
>turned out only to speak 802.1Q, while the supervisor cards on our
>5000's only spoke ISL. We had to upgrade the supervisors (actually it
>was simplest to make the 5000's 5500's) so we had a consistent
>trunking protocol.
>
>You might be able to have a consistent ISL environment with an older
>switch if you are willing to run ISL throughout. This is one of
>those things where you'll need to spend time with CCO and the version
>notes to find out all the boxes, and the (switch)IOS versions you
>want to run, are compatible.
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