[c-nsp] Wanted: Picture of working 7609 - Reward if found

[Neil J. McRae]

Per,
 
> We have had some hardware issues as well on ours, but the 
> software issues has been worse. Sometimes, you could count 
> the number of days with out a IOS-problem in days, not weeks 
> or months. We are so far using the 12.1E train (nowadays 
> 12.1(20)E3), the 12.2SX seams a bit to scary yet.

That's somewhat re-assuring.

> I'm not very impressed by the feature set, at least not in 12.1E.
> All interesting features is first introduced in 12.0S on the 
> GSR, then on 12.0S/12.2S on 72/7500 and a looong time later 
> *maybe* on the 7600.

Which part of the network are you using the box for? Core/access?

> We have had our shared deal with 7200 as well. We were 
> unlucky to get a lot of faulty NPE-400's (some memory timing 
> problems), and Cisco had to replace every single NPE in the network. 
> Speaking of NPE's, the NSE-1 tops out as the worst product 
> ever released. We never (nor Cisco) found an IOS that worked 
> stable on those with the PXF enabled....

Ouch...

Regards,
Neil.