[nsp] dot1q causes port error?

Stephen J. Wilcox steve@telecomplete.co.uk
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:03:35 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Gert,
 12.0S is appealling to me in view of all these 12.2 bugs but its a while since
i used them..

You've listed a few below - 12.0(21)S5, 12.0(18)S1.. 12.2(12a)

In your current experience which is the most stable?

Btw are you running dot1q or DEC21140 FE ?

Steve


On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:38:43PM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > > What kind of hardware is it that you need 12.1(8)EC for?  The basic 7200
> > > and NPE-225 should work fine with 12.0(21)S5, which is what I'd recommend.
> > 
> > Nope see
> > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/products_installation_guide_chapter09186a00800a9373.html
> > 
> > NPE-225 w 256Mb requires 12.1(8)EC or later .. I have proved this as the router
> > fails to boot with lower releases reporting dimm error.
> 
> Nah, that's a documentation bug...
> 
> ----------- snip ---------
> BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-P-M), Version 12.0(18)S1, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> 
> DECIX-new uptime is 1 year, 5 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes
> System returned to ROM by reload at 05:05:00 MEDST Thu Oct 18 2001
> System restarted at 05:05:42 MEDST Thu Oct 18 2001
> System image file is "slot0:c7200-p-mz.120-18.S1.bin"
> 
> cisco 7204 (NPE225) processor with 245760K/16384K bytes of memory.
> R527x CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 40, Rev 10.0, 2048KB L2 Cache
> ----------- snip ---------
> 
> Go for 12.0(21)S5 and be happy with that :-)
> 
> (One problem with the documentation on CCO is that it usually ignores
> the existance of 12.0S - feature navigator doesn't know it, for example -
> and thus people assume they need 12.1E or other nasties)
> 
> I'm not sure how good 12.0(22)S and 12.0(23)S are.  Haven't dared to try.
> 
> 12.0(21)S5 is well-behaving for me (BGP, EIGRP, PIM-SM, MSDP) and 
> even seems to have fixed those interface counter bugs.
> 
> gert
> 
>