[c-nsp] in praise of the cat6500 Re: Flow tools

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 01:52:16PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> The Cat6k got its start as the Cat5k.  The MSFC got its start as the 
> RSFC for the Cat5k SupIIG (and later IIIG).  Cat5k/SupIIIG+RSFC = 
> something like Cat6k w/MSFC in hybrid mode with CatOS on the supervisor.  
> (Source: Kennedy Clark's 'Cisco LAN Switching' from a long time ago plus 
> my own experiences with currently running in production Cat5k hardware).  

Ah, the times.  The RSFC actually came later, the RSM was before that - 
not a feature card for the Sup, but a full-sized 7500-RSP2 folded into
a cat5k line card, talking to the rest of the sytem via a special internal
trunk.

Interesting enough, the RSM was supported in IOS 12.2, while the (much
faster) RSFC died with 12.1 - which made a big difference for us at the
time, since 12.2 brought 64bit SNMP counters, and without those, the 
(otherwise working) VLAN counters on the RSFC are fairly useless...

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert at net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 305 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/attachments/20120125/6cbd8b57/attachment.sig>