Native IOS vs Hybrid

Personally I don't see any "special benefits" in Native IOS mode except "personal preferences" of network admin. I saw a comparison chart, and I believe there are some "features" which exist in Native, and do not exist in Hybrid, but they were so uncritical for us, that we just ignored them. I like to have separate functionality for Layer2 and Layer3, that's why I converted all our new Sup720s from Native mode they came, into the Hybrid mode. I would be glad if Cisco will make Catalyst 4500 Sup-IV and Sup5 into Hybrid... :-)

Mike

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The questions I would ask are:-

For any site:-

1. Which one provides the features that I need.

For a 'greenfield' site:-

1. Which is the least buggy for my features.
2. Which is geting the most development effort from Cisco. /and therefore is most likely to get best support

For an existing installation add:- a. What can WE best support.

I have not "been there done that" for a while but it does not look very likely to me that I would be going to CATOS on new Sup720s unless I already had an installed base.

On the other hand I would not be rushing into native IOS if I have a proven and functioning Hybrid installation.

You would think that CatOS must disappear sometime but clearly not for a while yet.

Hello, dennis! You wrote on 1 Apr 2007 22:28:56 -0700:

d> can anyone explain me what are the reasons why I should convert d> from Hybrid to native IOS on Core oder Distribution Routers ? d> What are the advantages ?

d> For my understand the on of the main reasons are there is only one d> operating system vs 2 operating systems.

d> But is there are also another reason from the technicals site ? d> Like performance, QoS...

Hi Andrey,

thx for the l> Hello, dennis!