4500E firmware bloat?

[Jim Jeater]

Hi,

Just noticed that there seems to be some firmware bloat on the 4500, sup8 train, curious is this is correct or not.  In 3.6 the non-crypto and crypto are similar in size, from 3.7 onwards the crypto is over double the size.

IOS-XE 3.6:

cat4500es8-universal.SPA.03.06.06.E.152-2.E6.bin = 186MB

cat4500es8-universalk9.SPA.03.06.06.E.152-2.E6.bin = 190MB

IOS-XE 3.7:

cat4500es8-universal.SPA.03.07.00.E.152-3.E.bin = 205MB

cat4500es8-universalk9.SPA.03.07.00.E.152-3.E.bin = 461MB

Thanks

Jim

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi Jim,

That seems to be correct. I use 03.07.02 and it is about 485 Mb.

HTH