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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
Table 11 Gigabit EtherChannel Feature Set Supported by the Catalyst 8500 CSR
Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) Features
Bundling of up to four Fast Gigabit Ethernet ports in a maximum of 56 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)
ISL on the Fast EtherChannel
802.1Q routing/bridging
Up to 56 active FEC and GEC port channels in one system
Up to 64 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 GEC.
Bundling of up to four Gigabit Ethernet ports
Table 12 Enhanced Gigabit Ethernet Feature Set Supported by the Catalyst 8500 CSR
Enhanced Gigabit Ethernet Features
Two 1-port enhanced Gigabit Ethernet port adapters with built-in ACL functionality and 16, 64, or
256 KB of memory available for routing tables
1-port packet-over-SONET OC-12c uplink port adapter with built-in ACL functionality and a 1-port
enhanced Gigabit Ethernet port adapter