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Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(10)W5(18c) Feature Packs for the Cisco Catalyst 8500 CSR
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System Requirements
Load balancing among two equal-cost paths based on source and destination IP and IPX addresses
Up to 6 equal-cost paths for IP and IPX; per-packet load balancing for IPX
Table 9 Supported Routing Protocols Feature Set Supported by the Catalyst 8500 CSR
Supported Routing Protocols
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
RIP and RIP II (Routing Information Protocol)
IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)
EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
IPX (Internet Packet Exchange) RIP and EIGRP
PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast)—sparse and dense modes
RTMP (AppleTalk Routing Table Maintenance Protocol)
AURP (AppleTalk Update-based Routing Protocol)
Secondary addressing
Static routes
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
Table 10 Fast EtherChannel Feature Set Supported by the Catalyst 8500 CSR
Fast EtherChannel (FEC) Features
Bundling of up to four Fast Ethernet ports in a a maximum of 64 FECs
Load sharing based on source and destination IP addresses of unicast packets
Load sharing for bridge traffic based on MAC address
ISL trunking (routing/bridging)
802.1Q routing/bridging
Up to 56 active FEC and GEC port channels in one system
Note See the “Catalyst 8540 ACL Daughter Card Restrictions” section on page 15 for
restrictions on FEC.
Table 8 Layer 3 Routing, Switching, and Forwarding Feature Set Supported by the
Catalyst 8500 CSR
Layer 3 Routing, Switching, and Forwarding Features (continued)