Cisco Switching/Routing :: Upgrade Couple Of 6500 Series Switches
Apr 11, 2012
My task is to upgrade a couple of 6500 series switches, 6513 with SUP720/MSFC3 (WS-SUP720) and Policy Feature Card 3 (WS-F6K-PFC3B) installed. How to upgrade those switches if in SSO redundancy mode with two SUPs installed?
I understand that it is good to connect to the MSFC3 via console and upgrade this first, is this correct?
I also have to upgrade some 6509 but I only can test it on one 6509-E, how to get everything up to date. [code]
some of the features of 6500 are enabled by default and woudn't appear in the "Show run". See the command below and how do I make sure whether these featues are enabled by default or not. Would it appear in the config if enabled?
ip verify unicast source reachable-via rx ip verify unicast source reachable-via any
storm-control broadcast level 70
what are the difference between the commands below and can they be enabled together.
spanning-tree guard root vs spanning-tree loopguard default vs spanning-tree guard loop
Is there any challenge to upgrade core switch 6500 series from Nexus 7009 which runs NxOS, because i have 3750X series switches connected at distribution and access layer in my network topology??
Is there any challenge if we place NxOS in core and IOS in distribution and Access layer??? how we are able to match sh run config in existing 6500 switch to Nexus 7009 NXOS?
I am little confused about the location of FIB table and adjacency table in both cisco 6500 series and fixed ports switches .In case of 6500 series switches
"Central CEF mode:The CEF FIB and adjacency tables reside on the route processor,and the route processor performs the express forwarding. Use this CEF mode when line cards are not available for CEF switching, or when features are not compatible with distributed CEF."
If line cards do no support CEF, then FIB and adjacency tables are built and are located on route processor( control plane ). Data plane operations are implemented in software and route processor performs those operations.
Some Cisco switches actually use different hardware to control the different planes. For example, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 is a modular switch that uses the Multilayer Switch.Feature Card (MSFC) for control-plane operations, and the supervisor Policy Feature Card (PFC) for the data-plane operations.
Supervisor module has has MSFC and PFC. MSFC implements control plane operation where as PFC implements data plane operation.But the first paragraph says in Central cef mode, both data plane and control plane operations are implemented by route processor. [code]
Do these switches implement the Central mode cef in same way as mentioned above. i.e
"Central CEF mode:The CEF FIB and adjacency tables reside on the route processor and the route processor performs the express forwarding. Use this CEF mode whenline cards are not available for CEF switching, or when features are not compatible with distributed CEF."Or fixed ports switches such as 3750 implement data plane operation in hardware where FIB tabe and adjacency table are maintained on Data plane.
For intervlan routing, Is 'IP routing' command enabled by default on a 6500 series switches based on the IOS?and on 3750 switches, do we need to enable the "ip routing" command manually for intervlan routing?
I have a routed interface on a Cisco 6500 Series switch. I am trying to find a way to adjust the tcp mss.To date I have not yet been able to find a way to accomplish this. Is this just not supported?
For intervlan routing, Is 'IP routing' command enabled by default on a 6500 series switches based on the IOS?hes, do we need to enable the "ip routing" command manually for intervlan routing?
I am getting the below messages on my Cisco 6500 series switches every 1min. The IOS version is 12.2(33)SXI6 & with SUP32-GE-3B
%ILPOWER-7-DETECT: Interface Fa1/1: Power Device detected: Cisco PD %ILPOWER-7-DETECT: Interface Fa1/1: Power Device detected: Cisco PD %ILPOWER-7-DETECT: Interface Fa1/1: Power Device detected: Cisco PD
These messages are I am recieving on few ports only not on all port having IP Phone connected. I tried changing the phone to some other model but that also did not resolved my problem. Also I tried powering on the phone using power adapter but the issue still persist.
Client are not facing any issues due to this error, but still I would like know what can be the issue which is generating these logs.
we have a customer who needs to perform upgrade on their Core 6500 Switch IOS from version 12.2(17d)SXB11a to 15.1SY.Is this a supported upgrade path and can it be done directly?
I am trying to upgrade Sup2T from 15.0 to 15.1 (same feature sets). I have the new image in bootflash and have changed the boot system statement to boot from the new image and the config register is 0x2102. However, everytime it reboots it loads the old image. [code]
Today we have 2 VSS, and are about to buy another two 6500 chassies to bulid a new VSS. Our currens chassies have supervisor 720, and the new one will probably have SUP2T
We have a network design that allowes us to run on a single chassie per VSS if we have hardware failure. This means that in a really worst case scenario we need to move around hardware to have 3 system up and running (that would mean multiple failures on all systems... so really really worst case scenario )
So here is my first question. Can I run a VSS with different supervisors in the chassies? Second question: If I want to upgrade a VSS from SUP720 to SUP2T, cna I run 2 supervisors per chassie (quad supervisor VSS) where one supervisor is SUP720 and one is SUP2T?
Doing a bug scrub on our dual core, dual Sup 720 6500s tonight. We are going from s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI4a.bin to SXI9. I want to get a second set of eyes on my script since I have not done this for about 1 1/2 years. Following this doc:[URL]
We recently purchased 2 Cisco 6500 series switches (with Sup 2T). These switches will be replacing our old 2 6500 series switches (with Sup 720).
We have 70 vlans and 90+ closet switches (2900) connecting the core switches We have 2 WLC connected to the core switch. We also have a 1 x 1 connection to a VSS switch which in turn connects to our Server Co-Location data center utilizing IPSec & GRE tunnel to connect to our Server Co-Location data center.
Our routing protocol is EIGRP. Our VTP domain at Server Co-Location is separate from our location “A” campus. I was wondering what is the best way to migrate our Core switches at location “A” campus.
The requirement is we would like to replace these switches with minimum downtime.
we have cisco 6500 series switch and configured port channel on both switches with 2 gig interfaces on both switches.
When we enable the port channel mode to as desirable to the interfaces on both side and applied the port channel to physical interfaces switch will go down and if we remove on any one side switch will come up. we have enabled globally the following commands. [code]
We have two 6500 switches and I am unable to login to these switches anymore, but i was able to connect to them yesterday via Telnet. The strange part is that it happened for both switches at the same time.But now when i try to login, it gives me a message "password required, but none set". I can login to them via console.Is it because the 0 - 4 VTY connection are being used and there is no password set from VTY 5 to 15?The config has not changed.
SWITCH-1 line con 0 exec-timeout 0 0 password xxxxx login line vty 0 4
we are using cisco 6509 series switches as core switches. and Cisco 4510,4507 series switches as edge switches. all the vlans are created at core switches and propogating to edge switches through VTP. we are using OSPF as routing protocol at core switch for internal routing. till now we are using 4510,4507 switches as layer 2 switches. Since, 4510 & 4507 switches are hign end swithces i want use them as layer 3 switches instead of layer 2.if i change these switches from layer 2 to layer 3 does it make any impact on our network or better to keep them as layer 2 switches.if i change these switches to layer 3 is there any advantage i will have.
I have to use 9 Cisco 300 series switches to build a new network. I will use one of them (core switch) in L3 for routing between Vlans (3 Vlans) and the others in L2. Is there a software to centralized all switches configuration, operation and monitoring?
We are implementing NAC in our environment and unfortunately still some of our obsolete 6500 switches are running CATOS, the current (cat6000-sup2cvk9.8-6-4.bin) image does not support some of the commands related to NAC implementation. Therefore, I would like to urge you to provide me the 8.7 image which supports all the NAC related commands and will be easier to finish the long pending assignment.
We are in process of replacing the obselete hardware but that will take time.
I am connecting power cable (series power cables) on 3750 stacks. i have connected them the same way the stack cables are connected i.e. fo rexample on a stack with 3 3750s:
1- fitst slot on fist switch connected the second slot last switch in the stack.
2- second slot/ port on the first switch to the first on second and seoncd on teh second switch to first on the third switch.
this how they are alway been stacked.Now, I need to connect power cables and I have followed the same method for stacks up to 4 switches. it seems that if a stack has more tham 4 switches, then the cabling will be dofferent!?I was wondering what will be on the cabling scheme for stacks more than 4 switches.
OSPF normally only comes with IPservices image and not IP Base image. The 3560-C series data sheet says that it only suport IP Base image, yet it mentions that support for OSPF in included. Are there any restictions in the OSPF support?.
I'm thinking about using a 3750 stacking around 4 or 5 switches intead of using one 4500 series switch.
1-My first argument was concerning the budget (one 4500 instead of four or five 3750 in stack mode) ---- Here i think 4 or 5 stacked 3750 is cheap than one 4500 2- My second argument was about harware redundancing that i don't have with one 4500 and that i have with stack mode ----Here i have more hardware redundancing with 3750 3- The bug that we notice today in 2960 and 3750 and not in 4500 4- Simple to manage a 4500 compare to 3750 stack design 5- I was looking also for the one with best backplane ----Here i didn't have any infos concerning the best backplane between 4 or 5 stack 3750 and a 4500. 6- I'm also looking for power redundancing.
I need to apply DHCP snooping on 4500 series switches working as L2 in my Network. We have external DHCL Server in another location connected with 6500 series switch.
Running EIGRP Configured Voice & Data Vlan both DHCP Server -------- 6509 switch<----------------------------------->6509 Switch -------- 4500 switch ----------------------------------------------------------Ip Phones. (ving Redundant) (ving Redundant)
I need to know whether the configuration which I mentioned in scenario is enough for apply DHCP snooping in my network.