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

[Rodney Dunn]

Thanks.  The NPE-100/150 issue is the only
one I know of where something was done to support
the newer supported NPE's and it broke an old one.

Other than this one issue I don't know of another
one which is why I asked.

Rodney 

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:50:43PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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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