Switches and IOS versions

[peter.shepherd]

I have a catalyst 2950 switch with IOS 12.1(19)EA1 which has a very nice CMS and a great way of loading it onto my local PC. I thought this would be nice if I could use it across all my switch clusters but several of my clusters are made up of catalyst 3500XL switches. Reading some documentation I reckon that I need the later version IOS to be able to use the CMS but can not discover whether I can upgrade my 3500XLs to 12.1(19)EA1. I found a document 'Product Bulletin No. 2339' which in its description has the following '... Cisco IOS Software Release 12.1(19)EA1. For more information ... now available in Cisco

IOS Software. It provides a ... feature with the Cisco Catalyst 3500XL. ... ' But nowhere in the document does it mention 3500XL switches. Anyone got any ideas?

[krozier]

Hi Peter,

The latest version of 3500XL code is 12.0(5)WC10 which was released on 07-JUN-2004. There is a download that has the CMS files included, so you can manage your 3500XL clusters using CMS. Let me know how it turns out!

Kersean Rozier

[milan.kulik]

BTW,

I'd recommend to upgrade your 2950.

There is a serious CSCec89172 bug in 12.1(19)EA1 which has been fixed in 12.1(19)EA1a.

See http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat2950/12119ea1/ol517101.htm

or use Cisco BugTool

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl

Regards,

Milan