[c-nsp] Old IOS

[Church, Chuck]

Aren't all the 2900XM 'M' switches 8 mb RAM?  I thought all the 'M' were
both modular, and had 8 mb ram... 


Chuck Church
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-kell at utc.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:35 PM
To: Michael Costello
Cc: Corneliu Tanasa; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net; Church, Chuck
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Old IOS

Michael Costello wrote:
> On 28/09/05, Corneliu Tanasa <ctanasa at i-net.ro> wrote:

>>"Church, Chuck" <cchurch at netcogov.com> wrote:
>>It was my understanding that none of the 4 mb 2900XLs could do any
>>trunking.  ISL or dot1q needed 8mb.  At least that was the case 3
years
>>ago when I was looking into it.
>>
>>[CT>] ... and still this is the case today.  The 4mb switch hold the
12.0(5)
>>images, but there is no trunking available to configure.

> To note, though, 802.1Q trunking is at least configurable on certain
> modules (for instance, the WS-X2931-XL).

The 4Mb XLs could not do *copper* trunking on their typical ASICs.
Those with uplinks, e.g., 2916M-XL, could trunk the uplink ports.  And
there were the 'all-fiber' 2912MF-XLs.

Jeff