[c-nsp] Cat6500 modular IOS - direction?

[Benjamin Lovell]

Patching and install are deprecated as of SXI3. 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2sx/12_2sxi/12_2_33_sxi3_newfeatlist.html

As for a formal announcement about the future of ION; as far as I know Cisco has not made any. However, someone closer to the horse's mouth may be willing to comment in more detail. 

-Ben




On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Abello, Vinny wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> So, I've been reading many posts, Cisco documentation and release notes and
> testing various versions of 12.2(33)SXH and SXI in a lab environment. Based
> on all the Cisco marketing fluff, modular IOS seems like the way to go for
> reliability. Real world experience from many smart people on this list seem
> to have the opposite opinion. I've read things indicating that the platform
> is going to be going all modular in the future (and one thing that said the
> opposite??). I'm further very confused by Cisco dropping the install command
> from SXI3 onward so there is no more patching which was one of the
> advantages to using it. I still like the idea of the protected memory and
> modern microkernel, but not if the platform is still buggy. Safe Harbor
> releases of modular seem to be mostly parallel with Safe Harbor releases of
> monolithic IOS. I also noted a few minor features that would be "nice" to
> have that are only in monolithic, but not in modular according to feature
> navigator. I can certainly live without them though, especially if the
> platform is more robust and stable, but I can't seem to decide if that's
> truly the case. I can think of a small handful of scenarios in my experience
> in the last 10 years where being able to restart a process in IOS may have
> been helpful, but it's very few and far between.
> 
> 
> 
> I think this question seems to come up quite a bit and was discussed a
> little recently. So my question is this: Is anyone using modular IOS in
> production with stellar results where they have not regretted doing so?
> Also, is Cisco really moving to a pure modular offering on the 6500 platform
> in the future?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any input and insight into the matter.
> 
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> 
> 
> -Vinny
> 
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