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Use this document to determine which of the Cisco IOS software releases in this Feature Pack will be most effective in your environment.
The CD-ROM shipped in this Feature Pack contains the following releases:
| Cisco IOS Release 12.0(6) | Cisco IOS Release 12.0(5)T | Cisco IOS | Cisco IOS Release 11.3(9)T1 | Cisco IOS Release 11.2(18) |
Based on Cisco IOS release number | Based on Release 12.0 | Based on Release 12.0, which is based on Release 11.3 | Based on Release 11.3 | Based on Release 11.3, which is based on Release 11.2 | Based on Release 11.2 |
Stability | Provides highest stability factor, compared with "T" releases | Early Deployment software should always be tried in a test network before being deployed in a production network | Provides a high stability factor in an older release, compared with "F" and "P" releases | Early Deployment software should always be tried in a test network before being deployed in a production network | Provides a high stability factor in an older release, when compared with "F" and "P" releases |
Platform and feature support | Significant set of platform and feature support | (See below) | Delivers a smaller set of platform and feature support than Cisco IOS Release 12.0(6) | (See below) | Delivers a smaller set of platform and feature support than later releases |
New features | None | Provides new Cisco IOS features as described in the release notes | Contains no new features after its initial release to customers | Provides added Cisco IOS features | Contains no new features after its initial release to customers |
New platforms or interfaces | None | Provides new Cisco hardware platforms as described in the release notes | Provides no new platform or interface support after its initial release to customers | Provides support for additional Cisco hardware platforms | Provides no new platform or interface support after initial release to customers |
Deployment Status | Limited Deployment | Early Deployment | Limited Deployment | Early Deployment | General Deployment |
1Has no more regularly scheduled maintenance releases because it reached End of Engineering with maintenance Releases 11.3(11) and 11.3(11)T on August 2, 1999. |
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Posted: Tue Nov 21 15:06:30 PST 2000
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