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Cisco Catalyst - Switching with Supervisor and Line Cards
It depends on the specific line card. Some line cards have more intelligence and features than other line cards.
With the line cards that support CEF on the card, you can enable distributed CEF.
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Cisco - supervisor reset without disabling interfaces
Yes, on the Cisco Catalyst 4500, interfaces located on the supervisor card function independently of the supervisor functionality. It is possible that the supervisor is not running IOS (and may in ...
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Cisco 4510R crash "Last reset from Abort"
Yes, the crashdump contains a great deal of information. The ones I have archived here are 200-300k of information. Cisco can make sense of what's in there; end-users, not so much. (as this is an EOL ...
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Cisco NTP server does not respond to queries
Stumbled across this old thread as a "related post" to something I was viewing.
Windows Servers' (S)NTP client needs to be configured to run in "client mode" when querying Cisco IOS (and probably ...
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Cisco catalyst 45xx series compatibility with RG45 10Gb
I know that with the WS-C4507R+E supervisor, you can use the WS-X4712-SFP+E Catalyst 4500 E-Series 12-Port 10GbE (SFP+) line card. The SFP+ slots can use either 1 Gb SFP or 10 Gb SFP+ transceivers.
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Cisco Catalyst - Switching with Supervisor and Line Cards
The 4500 does not support switching on the line card at all. All packets are received on the line card, travel over the backplane, reach the supervisor where the ASIC is located where they get ...
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C4510RE terminated abnormally
Looks like a bug. Get tech support.
In the meantime you can try and narrow down the problem by restarting your switches with the smallest possible hardware and software configuration and see what ...
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Unable to ping but I can see the arp in switch 4451
Check the source address for ICMP echo - possibly it's set to something 10.193.236.36 cannot reply to.
Double check whether the MAC address 0021.283f.63ea is correct for 10.193.236.36 (static ARP?).
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VSS back to back like vPC back to back
If you configured each pair of 4500s as a VSS, then linked them together with an active/LACP port channel you could achieve an all active topology (which is what I assume you are looking for).
You ...
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VSS back to back like vPC back to back
You can configure VSS on Cisco 4500E, The Cisco Virtual Switching System is a clustering technology that pools two Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches with Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 7-E or 7-...
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Want to disable TenGbE to enable 1GbE Gbics in Cisco 4500
When using the Sup II+10GE in redundant mode, you only have the first half of the ports on each supervisor. You can find that in the documentation from Cisco:
When you select TenGigabit Ethernet ...
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Cisco catalyst 45xx series compatibility with RG45 10Gb
From a quick glance at this data sheet, table 1 seem to indicate that your chassis and SUP support all line cards except the 24Gbps 47xx series.
So I may have missed one or two but it seems all these ...
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