[c-nsp] 6500/7600 with Sup720 opinion

[Dennis Peng]

Greg Schwimer [gschwimer at godaddy.com] wrote:
> Beware CSCed88768 when upgrading.  You may get corrupted type-7 encrypted passwords during the upgrade. The details say this occurs 10-20% of the time.  We've seen it 100% of the time.  

I agree, that was a particular bad one...IIRC, the bug should only
affect you if the "seed" of the encrypted password is 00, 01 or 02. So
one way to avoid the problem is to regenerate the password until you
get a higher seed (ranges up to 15).

Dennis
 
> If I had a dollar for every bug we've run across...
> 
> Chris Roberts wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  
> >
> >>Basic IPv4 functionality (i.e. BGP, OSPF, netflow, acl) is 
> >>rock solid on this platform.  There are some horrible IOS 
> >>bugs but the only ones that have caused us issues is when 
> >>we've tried something more "adventurous".  Haven't used 65xx 
> >>in an MPLS environment or with v6, or NSF, or SSO etc etc and 
> >>I'm sure there's issues down those lines.  But, for basic 
> >>routing/switching, it's a great platform.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >We're running into some hideous bugs at the moment. Mostly memory leaks and
> >such. We've had to reboot our box twice now in two weeks, and are making the
> >upgrade to 12.2(18)SXD3 from SXD2 on Friday in the hopes of some resolution.
> >Unfortunately both times we've not been able to get to the console or telnet
> >to the box with the aim of getting some debugging out of it so I'm going to
> >have a hard time getting anything from the TAC. :-(
> >
> >Only running basic L3 VPNs, with OSPF for the VRF routing protocol, and a
> >lot of straight internet connections, nothing particularly fancy.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Chris.
> >
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