Catalyst 2900 Switches & IOS

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I received my three 2513 router and one Catalyst 2924-XL-EN switch the other day. I was spending some time with Cisco's Feature navigator:

http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp

I was able to find what images offer enterprise features for my 2500 series router pretty easily. The problem is I can't seem to find what images give the enterprise feature set on my 2924 switch.

Are the catalyst images much like the router images, which can be used on just about the whole series (IE: C2500 images can be used on pretty much all 2500 series routers)? It looks like Cisco breaks up the switches into the individual models (CAT2950, etc).

I'm a bit new to this, so thanks for the help!
 
cisco moves in mysterious ways, especially with the cat's: they bought those guys instead of building them internally, which is why old catalyst switches run catOS instead of IOS. there might not even be such a thing as "enterprise features" for your switch; what is it exactly that you're trying to do?

as a side note, make sure you've got the flash and the ram to run the enterprise featureset images on your 2513's. they've pretty much got to be maxed out.
 
descartes said:
cisco moves in mysterious ways, especially with the cat's: they bought those guys instead of building them internally, which is why old catalyst switches run catOS instead of IOS. there might not even be such a thing as "enterprise features" for your switch; what is it exactly that you're trying to do?

as a side note, make sure you've got the flash and the ram to run the enterprise featureset images on your 2513's. they've pretty much got to be maxed out.
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I will be getting more flash an DRAM for the 2500's once I get my console cables to test them out.

Basically I just want all the features on my 2900 switch. It is for present, CCNA, and future studies.
 
Since the Cat 2900 series does not include IP Routing I doubt there is any more than the standard IOS for the switch.

Enterprise is more of the advanced features like BGP for the major carriers or protocols such as DECnet and Banyan-Vines that certain large companies still have in place but the generel public no longer uses.

For a CCNA level I wouldn't worry about Enterprise. When you are working on your CCNP Remote Networks then you can get it for learning BGP.

I let my Cisco login lapse so I can't check for you. But maybe someone else can.
 
My 2924M-XL is running 12.0 Enterprise IOS. I believe it is an interim software release. I read somewhere that the enterprise IOS is only supported on the 8MB switches... Don't remember where I read that.

Hope this helps.
 
Axeldoomeyer said:
My 2924M-XL is running 12.0 Enterprise IOS. I believe it is an interim software release. I read somewhere that the enterprise IOS is only supported on the 8MB switches... Don't remember where I read that.

Hope this helps.
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Would you be able to post the image name that you are using. I would like to try and figure out what Cisco uses to denote that it is an enterprise image.
 
Here is a copy and paste of the console when my switch boots up...

I think in order to run the Enterprise software you have to have the 8MB version and if my memory serves me correctly all of the C2900M series switches have 8MB.


Code: 
C2900XL Boot Loader (C2900-HBOOT-M) Version 11.2(8)SA5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Compiled Tue 23-Mar-99 11:54 by rheaton

 starting...

Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:d0:06:fc:a4:c0

Xmodem file system is available.

Initializing Flash...

flashfs[0]: 110 files, 3 directories

flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories

flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 3612672

flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 2673152

flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 939520

flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 0 seconds.

...done Initializing Flash.

Boot Sector Filesystem (bs:) installed, fsid: 3

Parameter Block Filesystem (pb:) installed, fsid: 4

Loading "flash:c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120.5.2-XU.bin"...###########################################################################################################################################################

File "flash:c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120.5.2-XU.bin" uncompressed and installed, entry p

oint: 0x3000

executing...

              Restricted Rights Legend

Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is

subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph

(c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted

Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph

(c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer

Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.

 

           cisco Systems, Inc.

           170 West Tasman Drive

           San Jose, California 95134-1706

 

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) C2900XL Software (C2900XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5.2)XU, MAINTENANCE IN

TERIM SOFTWARE

Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Mon 17-Jul-00 17:35 by ayounes

Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x00301F3C

 

Initializing C2900XL flash...

flashfs[1]: 110 files, 3 directories

flashfs[1]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories

flashfs[1]: Total bytes: 3612672

flashfs[1]: Bytes used: 2673152

flashfs[1]: Bytes available: 939520

flashfs[1]: flashfs fsck took 8 seconds.

flashfs[1]: Initialization complete.

...done Initializing C2900XL flash.

C2900XL POST: System Board Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: Daughter Card Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: CPU Buffer Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: CPU Notify RAM Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: CPU Interface Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: Testing Switch Core: Passed

C2900XL POST: Testing Buffer Table: Passed

C2900XL POST: Data Buffer Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: Configuring Switch Parameters: Passed

C2900XL POST: Ethernet Controller Test: Passed

C2900XL POST: MII Test: Passed

cisco WS-C2924M-XL (PowerPC403GA) processor (revision 0x11) with 8192K/1024K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID FAA0322H0ZX, with hardware revision 0x03

Last reset from power-on

 

Processor is running Enterprise Edition Software

Cluster command switch capable

Cluster member switch capable

26 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

 

32K bytes of flash-simulated non-volatile configuration memory.

Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:D0:06:FC:A4:C0

Motherboard assembly number: 73-3425-08

Power supply part number: 34-0920-01

Motherboard serial number: FAA03219L57

Power supply serial number: PHI030705YY

Model revision number: A0

Model number: WS-C2924M-XL-EN

System serial number: FAA0322H0ZX

 

Module     Ports  Model                  HW Version            SW version

------     -----  -----                  ----------            ----------

     1      2     WS-X2922-XL-V          xxxx                  xxxx

 

C2900XL INIT: Complete

 

00:00:39: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) C2900XL Software (C2900XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5.2)XU, MAINTENANCE IN

TERIM SOFTWARE

Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Mon 17-Jul-00 17:35 by ayounes

 

         --- System Configuration Dialog ---

 

At any point you may enter a question mark '?' for help.

Use ctrl-c to abort configuration dialog at any prompt.

Default settings are in square brackets '[]'.

 

Continue with configuration dialog? [yes/no]:

Hope this helps.
 
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