4507R+E FE0 management port

[JESSICA Walsh]

Is there some kind of trick to getting the fastethernet 0 management port to come up? My adjacent switch is up/up, but fe0 is down/down. I dont' see how this could be possible. I am getting all my info remotely, but I am pretty sure it's wired up correctly. Either it's not, or there is some trick for mgmt VRFs that I don't know about. Googling, but not answer yet.

[Ivan Shirshin]

Hi Jessica,

Which supervisor do you have?

If Supervisor II-Plus (WS-X4013+), Supervisor III (WS-X4014), Supervisor IV (WS-X4515), or Supervisor V (WS-X4516), then this port is available only from ROMmon mode and can be configured to download a new valid image through TFTP from a TFTP process.

Kind Regards,
Ivan Shirshin

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[JESSICA Walsh]

I finally found my answer in a Cisco doc. for the 4507-R-E sup the fastethernet port can't be used for mgmt. it will always say down/down no matter what you do.