[nsp] Cisco Stable IOS Releases

[Jared Mauch]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:52:33PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:46:19PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:10:13PM -0500, Don Lundquist wrote:
> > > > I know many of you have already been through this on several occasions, so please excuse me for asking it again...
> > > > 
> > > > What is the latest most stable releases of IOS for the Cisco 12012GRP and 7206VXRw/NPE-G1 running OSPF and BGP...
> > > 
> > > NPE-G1 is a bit icky, as you have to choose between 12.1E and 12.2S.
> > 
> > 	I heard a rumor that Cisco is backporting the NPE-G1 feature
> > into 12.0S
> > 
> > 	You might want to ask around your local cisco reps about that..
> 
> Thanks for the hint.  Actually we won't downgrade them - they *do* work
> for us, and we like the IPv6 support (which 12.0S doesn't have on 7200s,
> due to some weird behind-the-scenes decision makings...)
> 
> > 	As usual, take a rumor like this with a grain of salt :)
> > 
> > 	If you're going to do IPv6, I do recommend one watch out for
> > CSCed20042
> 
> Already on my watch list...  I'm not so sure how easily this can happen in
> "natural" networks (without v6-over-v6 tunneling or bad intent), though.

	We saw this in our network.

> The "IPv6 TTL not decremented if CEF+tunnels encountered" bug annoys me
> much more...

	Yeah.

	- Jared



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