Re: Longish - info on hybrid VS. native on Cat6k [7:21713]

2001-10-02 Thread MADMAN
Yes but I can tell you that catOS is not the direction Cisco is going. There are several line cards, like OSM's, that only run in native mode and eventually catOS will be history. So if you are installing a new 6500(s) I would seriously consider native as going from one mode to another is curren

Longish - info on hybrid VS. native on Cat6k [7:21713]

2001-10-02 Thread Rik
There was a discussion not long ago about the differences between native and hybrid modes on a Cat6k. The following passages are from a white paper I found on CCO, posted 9/5/2001. The interesting part is where it mentions the IOS must reset all linecards in the chassis for a successful failover