[c-nsp] WS-X cards on Cat6500 with VPLS

[Marlon Duksa]

Thank you very much.Marlon

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:43:18AM -0800, Marlon Duksa wrote:
> > > > If not, do you know why? The chassis look exactly the same.
> > >
> > > Internal Cisco politics.  Read up all the details in the archives of
> this
> > > list.  And complain to your Cisco account team (should you have one).
> >
> > But politics aside, would you get an error message by trying to install
> 7600
> > based LCs into 6500 with 7600 based IOS saying that you need another
> > chassis?
>
> SXH+SXI IOS will not boot on 7600-S chassis (but will work on "plain"
> 7600).
>
> SRC+SRD IOS will not boot on any 6500 chassis.
>
> Whether or not specific line cards work mostly depends on whether the IOS
> needed to access the line card will support the chassis it's in.
>
> > Is there anything in the chassis itself (some chassis id stored in
> > the eprom or something) that would prevent you from doing this or is it
> just
> > a 'verbal' warning from Cisco reps saying that you can't do that?
>
> IOS will actually refuse to boot.  "Unsupported chassis, crash, boom,
> Rommon".
>
> You can get specially-made IOS images to run SRC/SRD on 6500 chassis
> ("suppress the chassis-id check"), but you need to talk to your Cisco rep
> to get them, and it's only "to support the migration to 7600 chassis", so
> it's of fairly limited use.
>
> gert
>
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