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Catalyst 6000 Family Multilayer Switch Feature Card 2 Installation Note
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Features
Features
The MSFC2 ships with 128-MB SDRAM at 100 MHz with Error Checking and Correction (ECC)
(single-bit error detection and correction; 2-bit error detection) as the default and is upgradeable to
256 MB or 512 MB.
Table 1 lists the Cisco IOS features available for the MSFC2.
Table 1 Cisco IOS Features
Layer 3 Forwarding Features
Wire-speed IP, IP multicast, and IPX routing between VLANs (switches running the Cisco
IOS for the Catalyst 6000 Family of Switches product can also route between ports)
Support for up to 128,000 entries for IP network prefixes, IP unicast and multicast addresses,
IPX network numbers, and MAC addresses
1
FIB
2
and adjacency database support as defined in other Cisco routers
Destination-based load sharing among equal cost paths
Layer 3 Routing Protocols
Static IP routing
IP routing protocols: IGRP
3
, EIGRP
4
, OSPF
5
, RIP
6
, and RIP-2
IP multicast routing protocols: PIM
7
(sparse and dense mode) and DVMRP
8
interrupt
IPX routing protocols: RIP, NLSP
9
, and EIGRP
Layer 3 Related Protocols
IGMP
10
v1 and v2
IGMP snooping
CGMP
11
server support
Full ICMP
12
support
GDP
13
IRDP
14
MSDP
15
MBGP
16
