My New Toy

I was recently given a Cisco Catalyst 6500.  The obvious question is "what the heck do I need a Catalyst 6500 for?"  To be honest I still haven't figured that one out but I have one.  I received the catalyst from my school that originally got it from a local power plant that was getting rid of it.  The catalyst only had two supervisor modules and no switch modules so it was essential a very heavy box that could not do anything.  I shopped around on ebay and snatched up a 48 port switching module for only $10 ($23 w/ shipping).  Due to my inpatients I didn't want to wait and try to find a power cable so I cracked open one of the power supplies to hard wire one in.  I could quickly tell this was not going to be easy so I went the the simplest and possibly most dangerous route possible.

I took a computer power cable snipped the end that plugs in to the computer and hard wire it to the plug.  Do note I just wrapped the wires around the prongs and they are not secured in anyway.

I fire it up and the switch module works great.  One of the supervisors can't find it's IOS but the other one boots up fine and it works perfect.

I now have the biggest, heaviest, and most dangerously wired 48 port switch ever.  Unfortunately it won't be making it to many LAN parties.