How to tell the difference between 4500 and 4500M?

[yoggit]

Does anybody know how to tell the difference between a remote 4500 and a remote 4500-M?

Sure, there's a sticker on the base of them telling me, but I need to order DRAM and Flash and need to know the type, number of slots etc.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
yoggit

 

[mildmanrd]

Try the command "show hardware"

 

[yoggit]

Thanks, but this doesn't tell me if it's a 4500 or a 4500-M.

I need to look at the memory or flash I believe...

Cheers,
yoggit

 

[chrisel]

Execute the show version command. Revision 0x00 is a 4500 and revision
0x0B is a 4500-M.

 

[yoggit]

Thanks chrisel,

but I think you're incorrect...

From what I read on the cisco site, the 4500-M can have up to 32MB main memory and the 4500 can have up to 16MB, so I've been able to find any 4500's with 32MB and assume that they're 4500-M's.

Here's one of them:- cisco 4500 (R4K) processor (revision 0x00) with 32768K/4096K bytes of memory.

As you can see, revision 0x00 is a 4500-M.

We also have revisions B, D and E and all of these seem to have only 16MB RAM. All of the 0x00 revisions have 32MB RAM, but as I said earlier I'm still unsure of those routers with 16MB RAM - 4500 or 4500-M?

Thanks,
yoggit

 

[yoggit]

OK - here's the answer for everybody.

The show version command returns a line similar to the following for a 4500-M:-

4096K bytes of processor board Boot flash (Read/Write)

This line will not be present on a 4500.

Cheers,
yoggit