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Sup engine 2 and 4

The_guroo_2
Level 2
Level 2

just wanted to know whats the difference between sup 2 and 4 on 4500 swicth and what command would tell us that weather it can do routing or can only do layer 2 swicthing....cheers

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b.hsu
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Level 5

The difference is the hardware architecture made in sup II to support only CatOS and in sup IV the hardware architecture is designed to support Cisco IOS and CatOS as well.

glen.grant
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Sup 2 is layer 2 only (catos), sup 4 is a layer2/3 switch (IOS) .

HII

Can u plz tell us that wt is the basically difference between catos & IOS

Thanx

If Microsoft took over Apple, windows xp would probably not fit straight onto macs, there may have to be a hard where revision before windows xp would run on a Mac.

The same case with catos and ios, cisco bought out the company that orignally created and made the Cats, when they bought them out they badged them with Cisco colours but they did not change the OS. Our new 650 Cats run IOS now.

Hope that helps

well the difference is pretty straight........cisco swicthes like 2950 and other are called cisco catalyst swicthes........actually cisco bought out company catalyst.....so there operating system is called catos......catalyst operating system.....and u know abt the ios whic is cisco own operating system.......

Hi Manoj,

the basi cdiffrence between CatOS and the IOS is the CLI commands that your run. In CatOS, the commands are " Set " based for example " Set module 3/4 enable ". In IOS the commnads are not the set based and as the usual Cisco IOS commands like "interface fa 3/4 "

HTH

-amit singh

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