Cisco 6509 catos information and convert to IOS

abhisar patil · ‎11-01-2013

Dear All,

I have Cisco 6509 with catos and I am new to catos. I want some basic information about catos. Please find the following show ver and modules inside 6509.

6F-MSFC-1>show ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) MSFC2 Software (C6MSFC2-IS-M), Version 12.1(2)E, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Compiled Mon 19-Jun-00 22:17 by linda

Image text-base: 0x30008930, data-base: 0x30D14000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(3r)E2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

BOOTFLASH: MSFC2 Software (C6MSFC2-BOOT-M), Version 12.1(2)E, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

6F-MSFC-1 uptime is 1 week, 20 hours, 41 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

Running default software

cisco Cat6k-MSFC2 (R7000) processor with 114688K/16384K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID SAD04380KY5

R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache

Last reset from power-on

Bridging software.

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

2 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

509K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

16384K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 512K).

Configuration register is 0x2102

Modules -

WS-X6K SUP1A2G -- 2 modules

WS-X6348 -- 2 modules

WS-X6408-GBIC

I want to know what version of OS is this. And how I can convert into IOS. Also in future I am planning to put one more module for 10G connectivity, so please suggest whether it will support to this?

Thank You,

Abhisar.

glen.grant · ‎11-01-2013

You have a hybrid box , the layer 3 side is already IOS while the layer 2 side is catos. You are looking at the layer 3 side as you are in the MSFC . The layer 3 routing is setup on this side and any layer 2 stuff like vlans, trunking etcc is setup on the catos side. You have a very old sup1 card which is not convertible to strickly IOS so you are basically stuck with a hybrid box. PS I would be very surprised if this box will support any kind of 10 gig cards but I coul dbe wrong.