cisco 2948G Switch

[ray_stone]

Hello Experts,
We just procured cisco 2948 switch which details stated below:

WS-C2948 Software, Version NmpSW: 8.4(11)GLX
Copyright (c) 1995-2006 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
NMP S/W compiled on Apr 27 2006, 12:46:44
GSP S/W compiled on Apr 27 2006, 11:47:52

System Bootstrap Version: 6.1(4)

Hardware Version: 2.6 Model: WS-C2948 Serial #: JAE062503TF

Mod Port Model Serial # Versions
--- ---- ------------------ -------------------- ---------------------------------
1 0 WS-X2948 JAE062503TF Hw : 2.6
Gsp: 8.4(11.0)
Nmp: 8.4(11)GLX
2 50 WS-C2948G JAE062503TF Hw : 2.6

DRAM FLASH NVRAM
Module Total Used Free Total Used Free Total Used Free
------ ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -----
1 65536K 36879K 28657K 12288K 5930K 6358K 480K 289K 191K

Uptime is 0 day, 0 hour, 2 minutes

Please confirm its a L2 or L3 Switch. Also it has CAT OS installed already so please let me know if it can be upgraded into IOS. If not, do we need to upgrade into other CAT OS version that you would recommend. Also I'm not good in CAT OS conf and its a nex box switch so please help me in this as well. The switch is connected via console cable and the enable command can run but not config t. It would be better if someone provide the commands step by step.

Thanks

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[Leo Laohoo]

Please confirm its a L2 or L3 Switch.

It's a Layer-2-only switch.

Also it has CAT OS installed already so please let me know if it can be upgraded into IOS.

It's CatOS and you can't upgrade to IOS.

The switch is connected via console cable and the enable command can run but not config t.

"config t" doens't work with CatOS.  It's a "set" command and the command is automatically saved.

[ray_stone]

Thanks LEO for your quick reply. Can you please tell of what commands of IOS doesn't work on CAT OS. I need to setup trunk port, creating VLANS and other basic config so the Cat OS commands are same as IOS. Please confirm and also highlight some other concerns which may help me in future.

Thanks

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[Leo Laohoo]

2948G Configuration Guides

2948G Configuration Examples and TechNotes

[ray_stone]

Thanks again.

Let's suppose I create 3 VLANS on switch and the switch will have one trunk port connecting to firewall where the firewall connected port has sub interfaces created. Also I create VLANS on ESX host which will connect with switch and switch port will be trunk. Now my question is if I use two Ethernet ports of ESX host and connect with two switch ports by configuring trunk ports so would it work as a port ether channel where the bandwidth will be doubled or we would require to configure ether channel on switch. Please confirm.

Thanks

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[Leo Laohoo]

it has been more than 6 years sinve ive configures a 2948G

this model is very old and the links ive posted should have examples on how to configure etherchannels on a 2948G

[Leo Laohoo]

EtherChannel and Trunking Between Catalyst Layer 2 Switches and 2948G-L3/4908G-L3 Switches Configuration Example