Switch type C2948G

[Dennis Wieringa]

I have bought an Catalyst 2948G, because i wanted to see what Private vlan and Comunity vlan's do, and work.

so i looked the vlan specs up on this cisco site

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/10584-63.html

and saw that the "Catalyst 2948G/2980G" was there, but when i go look for some software updates and guide's,

the support site gives me another type of switch, and after some googleing im asuming that the exact type of my switci is an

"C2948G-GE TX" because mine has the 2 Gbic slots.

but the software link guides me to an "Catalyst 4000 Supervisor"

so does this switch just go up in smoke, or am i missing something.

i know its an oldie, but i just want to make sure that this is actually the switch from the support matrix.

and if someone knows where to get any docs, or software id be verry greatfull.

here' my 'show version' and system for reference:

WS-C2948G> show version

WS-C2948 Software, Version NmpSW: 4.5(3)

Copyright (c) 1995-1999 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

NMP S/W compiled on Sep  2 1999, 17:53:15

GSP S/W compiled on Aug 31 1999, 10:48:35

System Bootstrap Version: 5.4(1)

Hardware Version: 2.3  Model: WS-C2948  Serial #: JAB0423040J

Mod Port Model      Serial #              Versions

--- ---- ---------- -------------------- ---------------------------------

1   0    WS-X2948   JAB0423040J          Hw : 2.3

                                         Gsp: 4.5(3.0)

                                         Nmp: 4.5(3)

2   50   WS-C2948G  JAB0423040J          Hw : 2.3

       DRAM                    FLASH                   NVRAM

Module Total   Used    Free    Total   Used    Free    Total Used  Free

------ ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -----

1       65536K  16434K  49102K  12288K   3770K   8518K  480K   90K  390K

Uptime is 12 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes

WS-C2948G> show version                     flash

-#- ED --type-- --crc--- -seek-- nlen -length- -----date/time------ name

  1 .. ffffffff 49b31c5c  2ee684   17  2811396 Jun 07 2000 18:53:08 cat4000.4-5-3.bin

8722812 bytes available (2811524 bytes used)

WS-C2948G> show flash               system

PS1-Status PS2-Status Fan-Status Temp-Alarm Sys-Status Uptime d,h:m:s Logout

---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------------- ---------

ok         none       ok         off        ok         12,17:02:44    20 min

PS1-Type   PS2-Type   Modem   Baud  Traffic Peak Peak-Time

---------- ---------- ------- ----- ------- ---- -------------------------

120w AC    none       disable  9600   0%      0% Thu Jan 30 2014, 00:36:22

System Name              System Location          System Contact

------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------

WS-C2948G 

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[Tom Watts · Accepted solution]

Hi Dennis, from what I can tell, this uses software version 8.x

I did some research and found some old show version command outputs

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

So I believe the links you encounter are correct as I found the 8.4(11) under the support matrix when looking for 2948G

http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=278508728&flowid=2205&softwareid=282098305&release=8.4%2811%29GLX&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

Here's some configuration documents I've found

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/catalyst-g-l3-series-switches/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/catalyst-g-l3-series-switches/products-configuration-examples-list.html

By the way, I believe this is ONLY CatOS, not IOS. The 2948G-L3 can upgrade to IOS however.

-Tom
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