Hi,
Somehere else they showed a WS-X5224 card as being the one doing the etherchannel. My
understanding is that WS-X5224 cards do not support etherchannel.
Teunis
Hobart, Tasmania
Australia
On Wednesday, December 27, 2000 at 12:31:09 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> Somewhere back in this thread somebody wrote:
>
> > > > Are you sure you can plug the RSM into slot #2. I remember
> > > > someone telling me to have it in slot 12. Please let me know if
> > > > this is the case, our 5500 uses slot 2 for a back up sup III
> > > > module and slot 12 for the RSM with Vip module.
>
> Let's get really hardware geeky for a minute...
>
> The 5500 has three 1.2 (or thereabouts) Gbps backplane buses. Slots 1-5
> can access all three backplanes by themselves *IF* the blade in question
> can access all three backplanes. The 5000 had only one bus and the
> blades it supports can go in any slot, but use only one bus. Only the
> newer blades can access multiple buses at the same time.
>
> The "specialty" of the "bottom" slots (10 or 11 to 13) was for ATM
> originally, as they access a separate bus on the backplane dedicated for
> ATM. If you have ATM blades, they go in the bottom. Period.
>
> As for the RSM, I *think* it can go in any slot. The maximum bandwidth
> supported between the RSM and the Cat is 400Mbps - so that
> in effect it has a "virtual" 4-line fast etherchannel link with the
> switch. But that is it, no faster (for the RSM, newer blades
> excluded). So it can quite comfortably fit on one bus.
>
> The "big five" slots (1-5) should be used for supervisors (the SUP3 and
> beyond can hit all three buses) and newer blades like the ones with the
> "R" suffix and beyond, which can hit multiple buses.
>
> Jeff Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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