[c-nsp] Redundancy vs. Paranoia

[Troy Davis]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:06:24PM +0300, Volodymyr Yakovenko <vovik at dumpty.org> wrote:

> My personal recommendation - two boxes with one SUP in each plus one spare SUP
> for quick hardware and sofware (RPR+) replacement (three SUPs for two boxes).

I'll throw in a plug for hybrid mode when running with a pair of single
Sup/MSFC units.  The ability to reload just IOS on the MSFC without losing
directly-connected ports is amazingly useful, especially with HSRP on the
MSFCs for L3 redundancy.

Troy