IOS and CatOS 3

[gorlosky]

If I telnet into a Cisco switch:
How can I determine if the switch has both IOS on the MSFC and CatOS for the ports

How can I determine what the IP is that will let me in on the CatOS side.

Thanks

 

[bell1996]

Once you get into the enable mode of the switch you've telnet'd to, do "show run"

If you see the familiar commands:

interface fastethernet 1/0

or

line vty 0 4 or servece time-stamps debug or etc..

You're in a switch running IOS.

If you see some unfamiliar commands, such as:

set port name 2/1

or

set vlan 1 or etc...... (any set command)

then you're in a switch running CatOS.

To see if the CatOS switch has a MFSC do a "show module". This should produce a listing of the modules in the switch. If you see a module 15, this is the MFSC.

To gain access to the MFSC, do a "session 15". this puts you directly into the MFSC. To exit and get back to the switch just type "exit".

 

[vipergg]

From the Supervisor just do a show version and it is running both it will show you both the catos and ios versions .

 

[gorlosky]

Both responses assume some things, but are very helpful, but could you state how I would know I was "From the Supervisor", since this is part of the original problem of not knowing where the telnet session has brought me (IOS or CatOS side, which may more correctly be stated as Sup or MFSC), unless I first have to hunt and search (as noted in the first response). Could you also send some of the lines I would see from "it will show you both the catos and ios versions".

Thanks to both of you

 

[gorlosky]

In this case it shows IOS with MFSC, but no modules, so am I into the router side of the switch or what ?

NYALBPDKR90>sho ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) MSFC2 Software (C6MSFC2-JK2SV-M), Experimental Version 12.1(20030516:02
3733) [radhika-crypto 100]
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 15-May-03 19:37 by radhika
Image text-base: 0x40008BF0, data-base: 0x41CDA000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(11r)E1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

NYALBPDKR90 uptime is 42 weeks, 7 hours, 14 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 02:21:49 EDT Thu May 22 2003
System image file is "bootflash:c6msfc2-jk2sv-mz"

cisco Cat6k-MSFC2 (R7000) processor with 458752K/65536K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID SAL06396RLE
R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.3, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache
Last reset from power-on
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
TN3270 Emulation software.
1 FlexWAN controller (1 POS).
8 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
1 Packet over SONET network interface(s)
509K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

32768K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 512K).
Configuration register is 0x2102

NYALBPDKR90>sho module
% Incomplete command.

 

[baddos]

Try "show module [theslotnumberofthemodule]".

 

[gorlosky]

That does not help:

NYALBPDKR90>sho module 1
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

NYALBPDKR90>sho mod ?
ContentSwitchingModule CSM SLB module information

NYALBPDKR90>sho module 15
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

NYALBPDKR90>

 

[ADB100]

You are running Hybrid software - i.e. IOS on the MSFC and CatOS on the Supervisor. Do a 'show CDP neighbors detail' and you will see 1 neighbour - this will be the Supervisor, it will also tell you its IP address and the VLAN it is configured on. Telnet to the Supervisor a then the 'show module' command will work.

Andy