listing cards in a cisco catalyst 6500 / 6509
this took far too long to find, longer than a walk to the data center. I've removed the serial numbers to protect the innocent. I just wanted to list card models without reading them off the card.
Finally found on Page 11 of this that these cards don't support ISL, so they default to 802.1q:
sw01#show inventoryI removed a bunch of lines there. I was trying to figure out why "switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q" wasn't an option (there was no encapsulation option) on this card.
NAME: "WS-C6509", DESCR: "Cisco Systems Catalyst 6500 9-slot Chassis System"
PID: WS-C6509 , VID: , SN: xxxxxxxxxxx
NAME: "5", DESCR: "WS-X6148-GE-TX 48 port 10/100/1000mb EtherModule Rev. 6.1"
Finally found on Page 11 of this that these cards don't support ISL, so they default to 802.1q:
WS-X6502-10GEWhich was important because I was seeing traffic on the host that didn't appear tagged, and 802.1q doesn't tag the native vlan (vlan 1) by default. Of course I have no idea what ISL traffic would look like in a tcpdump, probably thrown away as garbage, but who knows, better to see and know than to guess.
WS-X6548-GE-TX, WS-X6548V-GE-TX, WS-X6548-GE-45AF
WS-X6148-GE-TX, WS-X6148V-GE-TX, WS-X6148-GE-45AF



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