advantages of 10/100 Management port on 6500/4500 series

[ohalnet53]

Hi mates,

There is a common port called "10/100 MGT" (next to console port) on the supervisor engines of 6500 and 4500 series switch.

Why would I need that port since I can telnet through Layer2 10/100 ports??

Is that port doing the same job as console port? in addition allows longer distances over cat 5 cables??

Do we need to assign IP address on that mangement port?

Thanks for helping :)

[Bobby Thekkekandam]

Hi,

The 6500 supervisors do not have a 10/100 MGT port. The cat4000 supervisors do, however.

On the supI and supII, the Ethernet management ports are for network management only. These ports do not support network switching. See:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat4000/inst_gd/05modins.htm#xtocid184774

On the SupII+, SupIII, and higher, the Ethernet management port is used (in ROMMON mode only) to recover a switch software image that has been corrupted or destroyed due to a network catastrophe. This port is not active while the switch is operating normally.

See:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat4000/hw_doc/78_13686.htm#wp32993

HTH,

Bobby

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