I found the following excerpt on CCO. It describes how slot 13 of the 5500
is a dedicated slot for an ASP or a CSR. Is this software dependent? In
other words, have an subsequent OS upgrades eliminated this restriction?
xtocid245915BM_25937BM_1015259Catalyst 5500 Switch
The Catalyst 5500 BM_1015260switchBM_1015261 chassis has 13 slots. (See
Figure 1-6.) Slot 1 is for the supervisor engine,
which provides switching, local and remote management, and multiple uplink
interfaces. Slot 2 can contain an additional redundant supervisor engine,
which acts as a backup in case the first module fails. A failure of the
active supervisor engine is detected by the standby module, which takes
control of supervisor engine switching functions. If a redundant supervisor
engine is not required, slot 2 is available for any switching module.
Slots 3 through 12 are available for any combination of switching modules.
Slot 13 is a dedicated slot, which accepts only the ATM switch processor
(ASP) module or the Catalyst 8510 Campus Switch Router (CSR) switch route
processor (SRP). When using the ASP in slot 13, the Catalyst 5500 switch
accepts LightStream 1010 ATM port adapters in slots 9 through 12. When using
the Catalyst 8510 CSR SRP in slot 13, the Catalyst 5500 switch accepts
Catalyst 8510 CSR modules in slots 9 through 12.
The Catalyst 5500 switch has a 3.6-Gbps media-independent switch fabric and
a 5-Gbps cell-switch fabric. The backplane provides the connection between
power supplies, supervisor engine, switching modules, and backbone module.
The 3.6-Gbps media-independent fabric supports Ethernet, Fast Ethernet,
Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI/CDDI, ATM LANE, ATM dual PHY DS3, RSM, and RSM/VIP2
modules. The 5-Gbps cell-based fabric supports an ASP module and ATM port
adapters. See
Table 1-1 for additional information.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Joe Quezada
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