When I was setting up a LRE switch last summer the only thing I could do with the profiles is set the different speeds the switch could negiotiate with the CPE. The speeds are predefined by Cisco and cannot be changed. To do what you want to do you...

I converted 2 Sup2s this past summer and I just followed the doc that Steve posted. It tells you everything that you need to know. The only problem that I ran into was that I had to upgrade the flash on the MSFC2 for the upgrade. Since I had to do...

I am not sure if you can set the switch to pull the vlan.dat file from the PC Card but you can enter the vlan information in regualr config mode on IOS switches. The command format looks like the following in the normal (running or startup) config f...

The nonegiotiate command turns off dynamic trunk negiotiation on the port. I have had to use it in the past to get non-Cisco switches to establish a connection with a Cisco switch. So, that is something that you may want to try but I have never see...

Assuming that those are the 13 slot 5500 you may want to look at a 4500 also. You could use 1 or 2 as a core switches and maybe hang 3750s or something else off of them depending on what you need. That is all I can say so far since there are no det...