I will address the issue of DRAM upgrade for the 5000-Spare. It is below ver
1.6 on the hardware. Therefore it requires a special SIMM to upgrade memory.
Most likely not worth doing. There is a Field Notice or Advisory on it. I
just couldn't find it quickly.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dewa Putu Nugraha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Cat5000 OS Incompatibilities
>
>
> Greetings,
> I have two Cat5000 with Supervisor Engine I running Sw
> version 2.4(5). Both
> Cat5000 have trunking enabled on port 1/1. I have a spare
> Cat5000 that I
> would like to add to the current network. This spare Cat5000
> also has a
> Supervisor Engine I but it runs Sw version 1.2.
> The problem that I am experiencing is that if the Cat5000
> spare is setup to
> trunk with Cat5000-2, I can't ping to and from the Cat5000
> spare. I have
> tried disabling trunking and the problem still exist.
> If I do "sh cdp neighbors" on the Cat5000-2, it shows the
> Cat5000 spare in
> the list but only with T (transparent bridge) capability, whereas the
> Cat5000-1 shows a capability of T (transparent bridge) and S (switch).
>
> |---------| trunking |---------| no trunk |-------------|
> |Cat5000-1|----------|Cat5000-2|----------|Cat5000 Spare|
> |---------| |---------| |-------------|
>
> I don't understand why the different Cat OS version would affect
> connectivity between switches. Is there a special protocol
> (BPDU?) that are
> running on the Cat5000 to ensure connectivity?
> I would like to upgrade the 1.2 version to 2.4(5) on the
> spare there is not
> enough space on the spare's flash. I will probably end up
> buying more RAM to
> be able to put the 2.4(5) image on the spare Cat5000 but I
> can't find any
> good explanation yet on why the different Cat OS version
> would not "talk" to
> each other, trunking or no trunking.
> Below are the "sh ver" output for all 3 Cat5000.
>
> Cat5000-1:
> WS-C5000 Software, Version McpSW: 2.4(5) NmpSW: 2.4(5)
> Copyright (c) 1995-1997 by Cisco Systems
> NMP S/W compiled on May 7 1998, 11:34:14
> MCP S/W compiled on May 07 1998, 11:37:31
>
> System Bootstrap Version: 2.1
>
> Hardware Version: 1.9 Model: WS-C5000 Serial #: 004097358
>
> Module Ports Model Serial # Hw Fw Fw1 Sw
> ------ ----- ---------- --------- ------ ------- -------
> -------------------
> -
> 1 2 WS-X5009 004097358 1.9 2.1 2.1(4) 2.4(5)
> 2 12 WS-X5011 002627389 1.1 1.2 2.4(5)
> 3 12 WS-X5011 003140551 1.1 1.2 2.4(5)
> 4 12 WS-X5011 003140485 1.1 1.2 2.4(5)
>
> Cat5000-2:
> WS-C5000 Software, Version McpSW: 2.4(5) NmpSW: 2.4(5)
> Copyright (c) 1995-1997 by Cisco Systems
> NMP S/W compiled on May 7 1998, 11:34:14
> MCP S/W compiled on May 07 1998, 11:37:31
>
> System Bootstrap Version: 2.1
>
> Hardware Version: 1.8 Model: WS-C5000 Serial #: 003614977
>
> Module Ports Model Serial # Hw Fw Fw1 Sw
> ------ ----- ---------- --------- ------ ------- -------
> -------------------
> -
> 1 2 WS-X5009 003614977 1.8 2.1 2.1 2.4(5)
> 2 12 WS-X5011 003140538 1.1 1.2 2.4(5)
> 3 12 WS-X5011 002627413 1.1 1.2 2.4(5)
>
> Cat5000-Spare:
> WS-C5000 Software, Version McpSW: 1.2 NmpSW: 1.2
> Copyright (c) 1995 by Cisco Systems
> NMP S/W compiled on Aug 30 1995, 11:46:12
> MCP S/W compiled on Aug 30 1995, 11:21:41
>
> System Bootstrap Version: 1.2
>
> WS-X5009 Hardware Version: 1.4 Model: WS-X5009 Serial #: 002463953
>
> Module Ports Model Serial No Hw Fw Sw
> ------ ----- --------- ---------- ------ ------ ------
> 1 2 WS-X5009 002463953 1.4 1.2 1.2
> 2 12 WS-X5011 003418188 1.1 1.2 2.2
>
>
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