Catalyst 5000 + Supervisor I or II- what can it do?

[0r8it]

Hello all-

apologies for the vagueness of this one, but I've been gifted an old but serviceable Catalyst 5000 switch. The only switching module installed is an Ethernet switching module with (IIRC, I'm not in front of it right now) 16 10/100 ports.

But it does have either a Supervisor I or II module. I'm given to believe from the peron who gave me it (who, incidentally, just used it as a glorified access switch) that this combination can do L3 routing. However, it seems that most information on this has long been deprectaed from the Cisco website, and, for once, Google is not my friend.

Can anyone recall what this device can do? Does it, for example, know about dot1q trunking, which would be very useful in my lab environment? Any kind of CoS/Qos? And is the Supervisor going to act as an L3 device for me (again, would be very useful)?

All the best,

Gary

[glen.grant · Accepted solution]

Those are layer 2 switches unless you have a layer 3 RSM card to go with it . The capabilities depends on the line cards , you can see what they are capable of by doing a "show port capabilities command . I doubt they have much QOS capability and you would have to have the last catos issued to get the most up to date capabilities. Unless you have the separate RSM card it is L2 only..

[0r8it]

Cheers Glen, thats what I needed to know. I wonder, in that case, what the Supervisor module does? I'll have a tinker about, its bound to present itself to me.

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply-

regards,

Gary