RE: NSE-1 experiences?

From: Alex Rubenstein (alex@nac.net)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 16:13:09 EDT


12.0.xS will work on the NSE, but thinks it is a NPE-175. It does work
tho.

12.1.xE sucks with a BGP race condition.

12.1.X Mainline is OK, and is feature rich.

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chad Skidmore wrote:

> There are a VERY few IOS images that the NSE-1 7206 routers will work with.
> Work with the TAC to identify those that will work with your exact config.
>
> Chad
>
>
> -----------------------------
> Chad Skidmore
> Director, IP & Data Services
> Avista Communications, Inc.
> http://www.avistacom.net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff Judge [mailto:cliff@broccoli.cidera.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:48 AM
> To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Cc: 'cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net'
> Subject: Re: NSE-1 experiences?
>
>
>
>
> I have had spontaneous reboot issues with 7206VXR's using the NPE300
> processor and running 12.0(8)S
>
> Each time the TAC tells me that well, looks like some memory failed
> somewhere, but there was no way to tell where, and the entire router had
> to be RMAed.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Woxholt Vetle wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > we recently experienced that a newly deployed Cisco 7206VXR with a NSE-1
> > adapter installed rebooted itself.
> > The IOS version installed is 12.1(2)E (which is required for the NSE-1).
> >
> > Have any other experienced problems with NSE-1 and IOS 12.1(2)E?
> >
> > The NSE-1 documentation claims that both 12.1(2)E and 12.1(3)T supports
> > NSE-1, but the 12.1(3)T release notes doesn't say that support for NSE-1
> is
> > included. What's correct?
> >
> > Any experiences so far with Cisco 7206 and 12.1(3)T?
> >
> > Output from the 'sh ver' command:
> >
> > Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> > IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-JS-M), Version 12.1(2)E, EARLY DEPLOYMENT
> > RELEASE
> > SOFTWARE (fc1)
> > Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> > Compiled Wed 21-Jun-00 09:29 by linda
> > Image text-base: 0x60008900, data-base: 0x61476000
> >
> > ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(20000211:194150) [dperez-cosmos_e_ecc
> > 106],
> > DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
> >
> > xxxx uptime is 4 minutes
> > System returned to ROM by bus error at PC 0x6041089C, address 0x4 at
> > 21:25:03 CE
> > T Sat Sep 16 2000
> > System restarted at 21:26:50 CET Sat Sep 16 2000
> > System image file is "slot0:c7200-js-mz.121-2.E.bin"
> >
> > cisco 7206VXR (NSE-1) processor (revision A) with 122880K/8192K bytes of
> > memory.
> > Processor board ID 20399677
> > R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2000KB L3 Cache
> > 6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0
> >
> > Last reset from power-on
> > Bridging software.
> > X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
> > SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
> > TN3270 Emulation software.
> > PXF processor tmc is running.
> > 3 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> > 1 ATM network interface(s)
> > 125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> >
> > 20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
> > 4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
> > Configuration register is 0x2102
> >
> > - Vetle
> >
> >
>
> -%
> Cliff Judge Network Engineer
> 301-598-0500 x2866 Cidera, Inc
>
>



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