IOS packaging

[sarahr202]

Hi everybody

Please have look at the following link and consider only the ios packaging portion towards the end in the chart.

http://media.packetlife.net/media/library/21/Cisco_IOS_Versions.pdf

Let say we have an image with " advance ip service" feature set.

based on the first part of IOS packaging in the chart, This ios will have feature sets of advanced security,sp service , ip voice and ip base.

However the same image will have following feature sets based on the 2nd part of ios packaging in the chart:

ip service, ip base.

Which one is correct?

Thanks and have a great day.

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi Sarah,

That is correct. you get IP base and ip services with advance.

HTH

Reza

[sarahr202]

Hi Reza.

And we also get with advance following:

advanced security,sp service , ip voice and ip base.

So what are we saying?  Are we saying with  advance ip service we are getting " advanced security,sp service , ip voice and ip base." feature sets ?

Or

Are we also saying with advance ip service we are getting  IP base and ip services feature set ?

Are they both equal  feature wise ?

thanks.

[dominic.caron · Accepted solution]

Hi Sarah,

Your document is 2-3 years old. Cisco made some change again in IOS 15...

The first diagram is for router, the second is for switch. Advance services for a router is not the same as advance services for a switch.

It's always better to use the feature navigator if you have access to it.

[sarahr202]

Thanks Dominic

[glen.grant]

   Also in most of your router line there is a single "universal" image  that contains all the code and you have to have the correct license codes to activate the features within the image.  So there really  is only a single image for the routers. So far I haven't seen them extend it to the switches but I thought that was the general direction . So in   the future there may be only 1 image for all  devices with the license activation feature.  I find the whole universal image licensing issue cumbersome at best.