[c-nsp] old 6509 trying to drive me insane :-)

[Jared Mauch]

You should look at the sup2t as an upgrade for sup2/mfsc2 at least. Sup720 is long in the tooth. 

Jared Mauch

> On Sep 16, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Joe Pruett <joey at q7.com> wrote:
> 
> it won't be doing much v6 for now. i imagine that by the time the volume
> is high enough, i'll be able to upgrade to a better sup. will the 720 do
> hardware ipv6 forwarding? as usual, the ipv6 stuff i found at cisco
> about the 6500 didn't mention anything about hardware support being
> slightly different.
> 
>> On 09/16/2013 04:43 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote:
>> You realize that sup will not do ip6 in hardware right?
>> 
>> -Blake
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Joe Pruett <joey at q7.com
>> <mailto:joey at q7.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    trying to bring ipv6 to an older 6509 system (sup2/msfc2). it
>>    currently
>>    runs 12.1. 12.2 has v6 in it, but the image is too big to go into
>>    bootflash. so i grabbed some pcmcia cards and dropped the image on
>>    there. so far so good, but the failover sup2 has too old of a
>>    rommon on
>>    it (6.1(4)) and can't see disk0. luckily that is new enough that
>>    it can
>>    have new rommon flashed, but the 12.2 images i can get don't support
>>    disk0 either, which seems very odd to me. so i think that maybe it
>>    needs
>>    a boot loader. but even worse is that the 12.2 rommon thinks that
>>    bootflash is corrupt. i even tried xmodem'ing the boot image over, but
>>    as usually happens with xmodem, i never got it to fly.
>> 
>>    so, i'm hoping someone here can provide one of the following:
>> 
>>    1. old 7.1 rommon image i can flash
>>    2. clue about why the newest 12.2 rommon doesn't see disk0 as a
>>    dev, and
>>    thinks bootflash is corrupt
>>    3. a way to get cisco to stop making things so complicated :-)
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