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So I had the benefit of logging into a pretty spicy Cisco 6509 today. The switch is fairly sophisticated as it does both layer 2 and layer 3. You might say to yourself, “now wait a sec thats lame, my home switch does that all day long.” Well guess what this isn’t some noob post. Check this out.

xxx-core-1> show ver
WS-C6509 Software, Version NmpSW: 5.5(1)
Copyright (c) 1995-2000 by Cisco Systems
NMP S/W compiled on Jun 8 2000, 21:09:45

System Bootstrap Version: 5.3(1)

Hardware Version: 2.0 Model: WS-C6509 Serial #: SCA144600GD

Mod Port Model Serial # Versions
— —- ——————- ———– ————————————–
1 2 WS-X6K-SUP1A-2GE SAD15281EJC Hw : 3.2
Fw : 5.3(1)
Fw1: 5.1(1)CSX
Sw : 5.5(1)
Sw1: 5.5(1)
L3 Switching Engine SAD04290398 Hw : 1.1
2 2 WS-X6K-SUP1A-2GE SAD153408TW Hw : 3.2
Fw : 5.3(1)
Fw1: 5.1(1)CSX
Sw : 5.5(1)
Sw1: 5.5(1)
L3 Switching Engine SAD04280W69 Hw : 1.1
3 48 WS-X6348-RJ-45 SAD15350DCE Hw : 1.1
Fw : 5.4(2)
Sw : 5.5(1)
4 16 WS-X6416-GBIC SAD15350EYZ Hw : 1.2
Fw : 5.4(2)
Sw : 5.5(1)
5 48 WS-X6348-RJ-45 SAD15350DHU Hw : 1.1
Fw : 5.4(2)
Sw : 5.5(1)
6 48 WS-X6348-RJ-45 SAD15350CJX Hw : 1.1
Fw : 5.4(2)
Sw : 5.5(1)
7 48 WS-X6348-RJ-45 SAD15350DMK Hw : 1.1
Fw : 5.4(2)
Sw : 5.5(1)
8 16 WS-X6416-GBIC SAD1536047S Hw : 1.2
Fw : 5.4(2)
Sw : 5.5(1)
15 1 WS-F6K-MSFC2 SAD15350LZH Hw : 1.1
Fw : 12.1(6)E
Sw : 12.1(6)E
16 1 WS-F6K-MSFC2 SAD15350M0C Hw : 1.1
Fw : 12.1(6)E
Sw : 12.1(6)E

DRAM FLASH NVRAM
Module Total Used Free Total Used Free Total Used Free
—— ——- ——- ——- ——- ——- ——- —– —– —–
1 65408K 39878K 25530K 16384K 6925K 9459K 512K 312K 200K

Uptime is 2245 days, 1 hour, 48 minutes

That is 6 years 55 days not counting leap years.

The one major drawback to this system is that it also hasn’t been patched in 6 years. Luckily the admin is doing upgrades today. Let’s hope the thing spins back up.