[c-nsp] 7513 with RSP4 IOS recomendation?

[Jeff Chan]

On Friday, April 22, 2005, 6:28:12 AM, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> a) Please get off those legacy IP boards. If you run MLPPP
>    on the MC-2T3+ PA you want to run it in distributed mode.
>    And to do that you really want all your boards capable
>    of doing dCEF.

>    Yes I know it should work even with a board in the box
>    that doesn't do dCEF but then IOS isn't supposed to have
>    any issues.

> b) I would go with the latest 12.3 mainline or either 12.0(27)S_throttle.

> c) If you want to put the MLPPP bundle in a VRF that is only supported
>    in 12.3/T latest.

> Unless there is a specific reason you are on 12.2S you shouldn't
> be there just yet. There is a train coming out later this year
> that will focus on the midrange routing platforms (12.2SB) and
> hopefully merge a bunch of the features for 12.0S and 12.2S.

> Rodney

FWIW We're running rsp-pv-mz.123-13.bin 12.3(13) without issue
so far.  The CT3 counters even work!!!

(We're probably not going to run MLPPP and we are migrating the
remaining lines off the CX bus cards.)

Thanks for your suggestion.  ;-)

Jeff C.
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> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:19:43AM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:
>> We have a production 7513 with RSP4 256 Meg, PA-MC-2T3+, PA-FE-TX
>> and some older CX bus cards (FSIP and HIP) that we are currently
>> running 12.2(14)S3 on.  We're running e and iBGP, Fast EtherChannel
>> to a 5500, netflow on major interfaces, all pretty basic stuff.
>> We might like to be able to run MLPPP on some of the CT3
>> channels, but only if it's very stable, etc.
>> 
>> We'd like to change to an IOS that does not have the MC
>> counter bug.  What are some relatively safe versions to try?
>> 
>> We've grabbed 12.2(25)S1 and S3 .  Is anyone using them
>> successfully in a similar environment (and without the
>> counter bug)?   Are there better alternatives?
>> 
>> Jeff C.
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