[c-nsp] IOS Modularity

Nitzan Tzelniker nitzan.tzelniker at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 15:16:07 EDT 2005


btw
I know its the same product but why in all the PR cisco talk about
6500 and not 7600 ?

Nitzan


On 8/30/05, Tim Stevenson <tstevens at cisco.com> wrote:
> At 10:35 AM 8/30/2005, lists at hojmark.org observed:
> > > you can restart a process, upgrade a process, protected memory
> > > and more. all in IOS on 7600 platform.
> >
> >Apparently the current version is also IOS running on top of a
> >microkernel OS, which is what brings you restartable processes
> >etc. They call it ION (IOS On Nucleus).
> 
> Neutrino, not Nucleus.
> 
> >That might also explain the jump in image size from SXD to SXE.
> 
> SXE is not modularized, SXF will be the first modularized release.
> The reason SXE is so big is the additional code required to support
> the new WAN carriers (SIPs) and SPAs.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> > > now it will be interesting to see if the 7200 platform will
> > > have IOS-XR or these functions on IOS
> >
> >It's not IOX. However, I don't see why ION shouldn't come to
> >the 7200 as well, but it'll probably need tons of (more) DRAM
> >and flash.
> >
> >-A
> >
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