[nsp] IOS Support for WS-X6148-GE-TX

[dre]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:39:14PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:32:14PM -0700, Simon Hamilton-Wilkes wrote:
> > I've already had a go at my account manager and SEs about this.
> > We're not going to Sup720 anytime soon, and have been pushing for
> > 48 port 10/100/1000 for months.  They're finally here but there's no
> > IOS support.  - We're running 12.1(19)E.
> 
> 	Based on rumors i've heard, expect to go to 12.2S/12.2SX from here
> on out for 6500 new features.  I believe that 19E was the last feature
> release (and that includes hardware) of 12.1E

Sup1/Sup1a/Sup2:
(??)09/03 - SupIOS 12.1(19)E2 adds support for 6148-GE-TX and 6548-GE-TX
(??)12/03 - SupIOS 12.1(19)E3 adds support for 6516a

> 	Perhaps some later SX release is due in a few days?

Sup720:
now - SupIOS 12.2(14)SX-1 - all pre-03/31/03 hardware, including FWSM, NAM, IDS, CSM
(??)09/03 - SupIOS 12.2(17)SX - adds 6148-GE-TX, 6724-GE-SFP, 6704-Xenpak, 6748-GE-TX

Maybe they will update 12.2(14)SX between now and September, but I don't think
Cisco plans to add any additional hardware support.  All the hardware support is
going into CatOS first, but Hybrid will never get the big software features.... ;<

If you want new features (IPv6, ERSPAN, SSHv2, etc) it looks like you will have to
be on the 12.2S/SX trains... however 12.2(17)SX only adds IPv6 and SSHv2, and the
next release (??) Jan/Feb 2004 - 12.2(17)SX-1 (??) will support ERSPAN and new MPLS
features promised.

dre