[c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?

[Cisco List]

One pair of NRPs is running:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software 
IOS (tm) C6400R Software (C6400R-G4P5-M), Version 12.3(1a), RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 06-Jun-03 02:18 by dchih
Image text-base: 0x60008954, data-base: 0x61288000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.3(9)DB, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc1)

br3-spk uptime is 26 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours, 54 minutes
br3-spk uptime since becoming master is 26 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours, 41
minutes
System returned to ROM by reload at 04:00:00 PDT Sat May 1 2004
System restarted at 04:00:22 PDT Sat May 1 2004
System image file is "flash:c6400r-g4p5-mz.123-1a.bin"
Last reload reason: clear routing issue 


And the other pair is running:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software 
IOS (tm) C6400R Software (C6400R-G4P5-M), Version 12.3(6a), RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc4)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 02-Apr-04 19:39 by kellythw
Image text-base: 0x60008AF4, data-base: 0x612DE000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.3(9)DB, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc1)

br2-spk uptime is 28 weeks, 4 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes
br2-spk uptime since becoming master is 28 weeks, 4 days, 13 hours, 20
minutes
System returned to ROM by reload at 21:06:41 PDT Fri Apr 16 2004
System restarted at 08:16:12 PDT Sat Apr 17 2004
System image file is "flash:c6400r-g4p5-mz.123-6a.bin"
Last reload reason: Unknown reason


The second pair running 12.3(6a) is running far better but is more
lightly loaded.  So far we have not run across any major issues.  We
played "IOS Roulette" for a while after we fired up BGP and MPLS IP VPNs
but things seem to have stabilized for us.

Regards,
Chad


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Chad E Skidmore
One Eighty Networks, Inc. - AS12111
http://www.go180.net
509-688-8180   


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Feeny [mailto:signal at shreve.net] 
Posted At: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 6:53 PM
Posted To: Cisco List
Conversation: [c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?



Chad,

What code are you using?  All code for NRP's seems to be ED, and just
about all the code I looked at 12.1 and forward not only has a ton of
BGP bugs, but bugs that are practical show stoppers and would make it
very difficult to attempt to use.

Brian


On Nov 3, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Cisco List wrote:

> We're running BGP on our 6400 ( 4 NRPs currently) without any issues.
> We aren't feeding them full tables however since that would likely 
> make them fall over pretty quickly.  Our main reason for running BGP 
> on them is to support MPLS VPNs for a bunch of DSL, T1, Ethernet, DS3,
etc.
> service interworking in support of an MPLS VPN solution set.
>
> If we had a request to do full routes to a customer we'd first try to 
> talk them out of it and then fall back to a BGP multi-hop setup so 
> they could peer with a far more capable router.
>
> Good luck,
> Chad
>
>
> ----------------------------
> Chad E Skidmore
> One Eighty Networks, Inc. - AS12111
> http://www.go180.net
> 509-688-8180
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Feeny [mailto:signal at shreve.net] Posted At: Tuesday, 
> November 02, 2004 7:06 AM Posted To: Cisco List
> Conversation: [c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?
> Subject: [c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?
>
>
>
> I posted a message last night, and accidently typed "6500" when what I

> meant was 6400's (NRP's), so I am re-asking a question here and hoping

> some of you can give me some feedback.
>
> Is anyone doing BGP on 6400 NRP's?  If so, is it working ok?
>
> Specifically I have a set of NRP's that need to take 1 iBGP feed and 1

> eBGP feed,  and I have been told that these do not play well with BGP,

> the sessions drop for unknown reasons, etc and are just unreliable 
> when it comes to thinking about running BGP on them.
>
> I have BGP working on RSM's/NPE's/RSP's, etc with only 128MB in 
> similar situations and although they aren't speedy gonzales, it does 
> work.  So I am skeptical about NRP's not being able to do this, and if

> anyone has anything to say about it please let me know.
>
> Brian
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036, CISSP
> Network Engineer
> ShreveNet Inc.
>
>
>
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Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036, CISSP
Network Engineer
ShreveNet Inc.