[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

>> And the 6500, as someone stated, will run CatOS which will not as far
>> as I know, support the 7600 WAN cards.
>
> Wrong. At my previous employer we bought a number of 6509 boxes with
> the NEBS chassis. Several of these were later converted to 7600 by
> the addition of a 4 port GE-WAN card (ie. one OSM). So our conclusion
> *at the time* was that a 7600 was a 6500 with Sup2/MSFC2/PFC2 and at
> least one OSM.

Did you run CatOS on the 6500 at the time? My statement above is that 
CatOS will not support WAN cards, which doesn't mean I'm saying the 6509 
chassis will not support WAN cards.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se