[c-nsp] 12.0.30S (NPE-150)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:32:20AM -0500, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> I don't recall seeing anything about the 7200-I/O-FE
> board no working in 12.2S /*yeah I know it's
> not supported*/ but was there a technical answer as to
> why it didn't work?

This was sort of speculative, following up on Ted's worries about 
Cisco droppin support for the EOLed NPEs - I just wanted to point out
that even if customers might not like it, EOLing the NPEs (and dropping
support) is something I find less scary than EOLing the IO-Board, which
might actually bite NPE-400 or even NPE-G1-equipped boxes all of a
sudden.

We normally don't buy new IO-Boards when upgrading NPEs, and thus have
a fair lot of fast NPEs with "old" IO-Boards, and only 3 or so IO-2FE/E.

As of today, all 7200-I/O-FE (with RJ45) boards are working fine.  We
have one router with a 7200-I/O-FE with MII only that started to develop
massive problems (once a week or so the interface was "stuck" and 
required a "clear int fa0/0" to recover) - but that router is very old
and thus might just have been defective.  We have replaced the IO board,
and since then the problems are gone.

gert
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