Re: 1000BaseTx GBICS on Cat4000 -???

pgcampbell · ‎07-15-2002

Are the 1000BaseTX GBICS supported on the Cat4000 w/Sup-III, below is my show ver output.

Switch>show ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) Catalyst 4000 L3 Switch Software (cat4000-IS-M), Version 12.1(8a)EW1, E

ARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac

Compiled Wed 20-Feb-02 18:02 by eaarmas

Image text-base: 0x00000000, data-base: 0x00AA30DC

ROM: 12.1(11br)EW

Switch uptime is 1 hour, 7 minutes

System returned to ROM by reload

System image file is "bootflash:cat4000-is-mz.121-8a.EW1.bin"

cisco WS-C4006 (MPC8245) processor (revision 7) with 262144K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID FOX061600SY

Last reset from Reload

48 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

14 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

467K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

Configuration register is 0x2102

bsivasub · ‎07-15-2002

Not currently.

planned for dec/jan time frame. the model # is WS-G5483

Prashanth Krishnappa · ‎07-15-2002

Not supported yet..Will be later this year

pgcampbell · ‎07-23-2002

We're being told by our local Cisco Engineer that the Catalyst 4006 platform running CAT OS 7.2 or later will support 1000BaseTX GBICS, is this true?

kenjohnson · ‎07-23-2002

I would guess it would depend on the blades you have - I recall there being some debate as to whether some of the blades could support TX GBICs because of voltage concerns or something like that - (I think in our case it was the 18-port server GBIC card that seemed unlikely to be able to handle it).

But I got the impression that for some of the more mainstream cards like the supervisors themselves and possibley the 12-port server TX card with GBIC uplinks they would be supported in code...

If they've about circled and are going to be able to make it work for all cards simply with code I'll jump for joy - but I'm not holding my breath :-)

I'll just be thankful for my SUP3 :-)

- Ken

Prashanth Krishnappa · ‎07-23-2002

We support 1000BaseT GBICs on all line cards in a CAT4006 with Sup2 if it's running 7.2(x). Only exception I can think of is the Layer 3 modules front panel routed ports.

Prashanth Krishnappa · ‎07-23-2002

Yes. A cat4006 with Sup2 running 7.2(x) supports Copper GBICs

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca3550/prodlit/1741_pp.htm

On a Sup3 running IOS, we do not support it yet

kenjohnson · ‎07-23-2002

Wow! I stand corrected. And quite happily so!

- ken