Re: nonrouting switches


I have also discovered that there are some 65xx's running catos and
some running ios.
I thought that catos was for switches and ios for routers, and that
65xx's were switches.
Do 65xx's really run ios and act as routers? I think I need to read
some fine manuals.

6500 can run :

1. CATOS only

2. CATOS OS on the Supervisor module and IOS on MSFC
which is a daughterboard for Supervisor - known as hybrid mode

3. IOS only - known as native mode

for info on 6500 start with
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/tsd_products_support_general_information.html

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