[c-nsp] Cisco 6509 Software Modes

[Nauwelaerts, Nick (CM Belgium)]

Have you checked out this page:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_
white_paper09186a00800c8441.shtml

It has a nice comparison of CatOS vs IOS on 6500's.

There's nothing solid on perfomance in there as far as I can tell. One
think that I did notice is that CatOS seems to to lack support for dcef,
which could mean a major performance difference with newer linecards.
We're running IOS on our 6513 with supervisor 720 and are very happy
with performance. We push about 2gigabit/sec sustained through our vlans
and up to 5gigabit/sec at peak times, switching perfomance seems
linerate as well (WS-X6748-GE-TX & WS-X6724-SFP linecards).

// nick


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Strandt
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 02:17 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco 6509 Software Modes
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend some reading material that contrasts the 
> advantages/disadvantages and/or differences between 6509's in Native 
> mode vs Hybrid mode?
> 
> I understand the basic concept, but would like to further 
> understand the 
> feature differences and performance impacts.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Chris
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