[c-nsp] 12.2S or 12.3 ?

[Dennis Peng]

For now, if you need to do PPPoE/L2TP aggregation, you'll have to
stick with 12.3/12.3T. It isn't supported on 12.2S yet. Go with 12.3
unless you need to have one of the 12.3T features.

Dennis

Michael Markstaller [mm at elabnet.de] wrote:
> Now, getting my first few own 7206VXR/NPE-400/512MB into production soon I'm still unsure which image to use.
> 
> Since now I've only run with 12.2, 12.2T, 12.3 and 12.3T and I still wonder what exactly the 12.2S images are good for (as every IOS-release is highperformance,unmatched,optimized,carrier-class,enterpise-edge multi-core,V3PN optimized in marketing papers - and some are full of bugs in basic funtionality)
> 
> I need no speciual features, only E1/E3 terminination, some basic QoS, PPPoE/L2TP aggregation, BGP. 
> Working IPSec,SSH and some 12.3 features would be fine but is no must-have. MPLS would be possibly fine for future things but also optional for now as we do everything end-to-end IPSec anyway.
> 
> >From 12.3T I know enough that I won't run it on these core-boxes because there're definitely already too many bugs in basics I ran into myself.. 
> I now tend between 12.3(10) which I had good experiences with and some 12.2S like the latest 12.2(25)S3
> Giving stability absolutely highest prio but also tending to use new features, 
> what IOS would some of you start with when building up a new POP core from scratch ?
> 
> TIA, 
> Michael
> 
> 
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