WS-X5403 blade configuration in a Cat 5000

[mreilly]

I have a customer who has a catalyst 5000 with a ws-x5403 blade and wants to connect to 3 sites using gig. The problem is ports 2 and 3 on this blade come up inactive. Is there a way to set up all three of these ports as gig to multiple sites?

[Prashanth Krishnappa · Accepted solution]

Depending on the Chassis type and Supervisor type, all ports can be active. The following page should help you

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat5000/hardware/modules/04ether.htm#23384

[mreilly]

It says that the cat5000 port 1 active 2 and 3 inactive does this mean there is a backplane limitation with the chasis so it cannot support 3 gig ports? So this 2 ports are useless.

[Prashanth Krishnappa]

Correct.. A 550x chassis with three 1.2 Gbps backplane busses and can support all 3 ports(slot dependent as well).

You will also need a Sup3 Engine to make use of all 3 ports.