cisco 4900 with software 4500

[Dr.X]

Hello Team,

I'm receiving cisco 4900 MLS.

But I found the software IOS is 4500 bashed on show ver below :

show ver

Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500e-ENTSERVICESK9-M),                                                                                         Version 12.2(54)SG, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Sun 27-Jun-10 09:28 by prod_rel_team

Image text-base: 0x10000000, data-base: 0x12E09514

ROM: 12.2(44r)SG5

Sushi Revision 11, Tatooine Revision 141, Forerunner Revision 1.78

Switch uptime is 3 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System image file is "bootflash:cat4500e-entservicesk9-mz.122-54.SG.bin"

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cisco WS-C4900M (MPC8548) processor (revision 2) with 524288K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID JAE14190C92

MPC8548 CPU at 1.33GHz, Cisco Catalyst 4900M

Last reset from PowerUp

1 Virtual Ethernet interface

8 Ten Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

511K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

Configuration register is 0x2102

Here is more info :

Switch#sh module

Chassis Type : WS-C4900M

Power consumed by backplane : 0 Watts

Mod Ports Card Type                              Model              Serial No.

---+-----+--------------------------------------+------------------+-----------

 1     8  4900M 10GE (X2)                        WS-C4900M          JAE14190VWL

 #########################################3

Switch#sh environment status

Power                                             Fan      Inline

Supply  Model No          Type       Status       Sensor   Status

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

PS1     PWR-C49M-1000AC   AC 960W    good         good     n.a.

PS2     PWR-C49M-1000AC   AC 960W    good         good     n.a.

Power supplies needed by system    : 1

Power supplies currently available : 2

Chassis Type : WS-C4900M

Power consumed by backplane : 0 Watts

Switch Bandwidth Utilization : 0%

Supervisor Led Color : Green

Module  1 Status Led Color  : Green

Module  3 Status Led Color  : Off

Fantray : Good

Fantray removal timeout : 30

Power consumed by Fantray : 120 Watts

##################################33

Switch# sh inventory

NAME: "Switch System", DESCR: "Cisco Systems, Inc. WS-C4900M 3 slot switch "

PID: MIDPLANE          , VID:      , SN: JAE14190C92

NAME: "Linecard(slot 1)", DESCR: "4900M 10GE (X2) with 8 10GE X2 ports"

PID: WS-C4900M         , VID: V07  , SN: JAE14190VWL

NAME: "Fan", DESCR: "FanTray"

PID: WS-X4992          , VID: V02  , SN: FOX1412GXA8

NAME: "Power Supply 1", DESCR: "Power Supply ( AC 960W )"

PID: PWR-C49M-1000AC   , VID: V01  , SN: TLD141550GP

NAME: "Power Supply 2", DESCR: "Power Supply ( AC 960W )"

PID: PWR-C49M-1000AC   , VID: V01  , SN: TLD123050HR

I really made research on the switch capabilities like L3 advanced features here :

https://www.andovercg.com/datasheets/cisco-catalyst-4900M-series-switches.pdf

and I found that it meets our needs.

But I'm still feeling confused if it's possible to have the same L3 features mentioned in the above document with IOS of 4500.

is it logical to have IOS 4500 ? or there is an original 4900 ISO that can give us the full features?

Thanks 

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

But I'm still feeling confused if it's possible to have the same L3 features mentioned in the above document with IOS of 4500.
is it logical to have IOS 4500 ? or there is an original 4900 ISO that can give us the full features?

Not sure what commands, the IOS command reference for both should be same, until give note saying that this commands not going to work on Cat 4900

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

If I remembered correctly, a 4900M is actually built around a Sup6E inside.  

Can it do routing?  In a limited manner, yes.  (License dependent).

Can it do VRF-Lite?  Yes (license dependent).

Can it do MPLS/VRF?  Nope.  

[Dr.X]

Hello LEO ,

thank you for your reply.

Do you mean it needs IOS advanced services?

or there is another license that needed to be purchased?

Based on cisco doc :

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Layer 3 Features
● Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
● Hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 250 mpps
● IP routing protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP4, RIP, and RIPv2
● OSPF fast convergence
● OSPF and EIGRP fast convergence protection
● EIGRP stub
● Static routing
● Inter-VLAN routing
● Virtual Route Forwarding lite (VRF-lite)
● Multicast VRF-lite
● VRF-aware IP services
● EIGRP to Multi-VRF CE (VRF-lite)
● Equal Cost Multi Path Routing (ECMP), up to 8 paths
● IPv6: RIP next generation (RIPng) for IPv6
● IPv6: OSPFv3
● IPv6: EIGRP
● Software-based generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunneling
● IGMP v1, v2, and v3
Data Sheet

© 2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 7 of 19
● IGMP filtering on access and trunk ports
● IP multicast routing protocols: Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) (sparse mode [SM], dense mode [DM], SDM)
● Protocol Independent Multicast Version 6 (PIMv6) (SM)
● Pragmatic General Multicast
● Bidirectional (Bi-dir) PIM
● Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
● ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
● Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server
● Per-port multicast suppression
● Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)
● Policy-based routing (PBR)
● PIM source-specific multicast (SSM) mapping
High Availability Features
● 1+1 hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies
● Hot-swappable field-replaceable fan tray with redundant fans
● Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
● HSRPv2
● Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
● Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
● Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD)
● Enhanced Object Tracking (EOT)
IPv6 Support
● RIP next generation (RIPng) for IPv6
● OSPFv3
● EIGRP
● PIMv6 (SM)
● IPv6 unicast and multicast forwarding in hardware
● IPv6 addressing architecture
● Cisco Discovery Protocol IPv6 address family
● Cisco Express Forwarding and Distributed Cisco Express Forwarding in hardware
● Extended ACL
● ICMP rate limiting
● ICMPv6
● ICMPv6 redirect
● IPMIB
● IPv6 over IEEE 802.1Q
● IPv6 over IPv4 GRE tunnel (tunnel support in software)
● Intrasite Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
Data Sheet
© 2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 8 of 19

● Loopback
● MLD snooping
● MLDv1 and v2
● Maximum transmission unit (MTU) path discovery for IPv6
● Ping
● IPv6: Secure Shell (SSH) over an IPv6 transport
● Stateless autoconfiguration
● Static routes within IPv6
● Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
● Telnet
● Trivial FTP (TFTP)
● Traceroute
● Duplicate address detection
● Standard ACL
● IPv6 tunnels in software
● Hop-by-hop option header; in software
● DHCPv6 relay agent
● HSRPv2 IPv6
Sophisticated QoS and Traffic Management
● Modular QoS command-line interface (MQC)
● Per-port per VLAN QoS
● Dynamic Tx queue sizing
● Strict priority queuing
● IP differentiated services code point (DSCP)
● IEEE 802.1p class of service
● Flexible classification marking
● Classification and marking based on full Layer 3 and 4 headers
● Input and output policing based on Layer 3 and 4 headers
● Support for 16,000 policers with flexible assignment for input and output
● 2-rate 3-color policing
● Output queue management shaping and sharing
● Dynamic buffer limiting: Congestion-avoidance feature
Performance and Scalability
● 320-Gbps switching fabric
● Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 250 mpps
● Layer 3 hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 250 mpps
● Layer 4 TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) hardware-based filtering at 250 mpps
● Software-based learning at a sustained rate of 10,000 hosts per second
● 55,000 unicast MAC addresses
Data Sheet
© 2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 9 of 19

● 16,000 multicast MAC addresses
● 200,000 entries in routing table (shared between unicast and multicast)
● 4000 virtual ports (VLAN port instances)
● Bandwidth aggregation up to 16 Gbps through Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology.
● Bandwidth aggregation up to 160 Gbps for 10 Gigabit Ethernet through 10 Gigabit EtherChannel technology
● Hardware-based multicast management
● Hardware-based ACLs

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If the current hardware can work as the info above, I'm ok, but I'm only worried if the chassis is 4900 and run as 4500 not to cover all L3 .

That's what makes me confused.

Regards 

[Leo Laohoo]

Read the Release Notes for the 4900M. 

All the features and capabilities of the platform are listed in the Release Notes.