[c-nsp] 7206VXR Crashing on BGP full feed

[Rodney Dunn]

Not if it's one of the cpu caches if I remember right.

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:28:38AM +1100, Andrew Fort wrote:
> Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> > Ok
> > 
> > So... I'm getting lots of responses about IOS version. Does this mean that
> > it is not worth trying to actually figure out the problem and I should just
> > change IOS and see if it still happens?
> > 
> > ...Skeeve
> 
> re the crash, the address "0xAB1234CE" looks particularly cooked, i 
> roshamboe you it's a software problem.
> 
> Generally I believe it's good practice to test what you're trying to do 
> first, particularly when running bleeding edge code.  Wisdom usually 
> only comes through making mistakes though, so welcome.
> 
> However, to help your client more rapidly, we have boxes that look 
> rather similar, with same/faster and slower NPE's, more routes, 512MB, 
> and 12.0(28)S<something>.  We have found that reliable enough for the 
> netflow+ospf+bgp+.1q+acl subint access router role (also as a small 
> core/border with some less of that junk running).  Even the SNMP 
> counters work for us (yay even on .1q subints), which is an ever present 
> complaint.
> 
> Alternatively if you want different/other features, you might find 
> 12.2(18)S<something> to your liking.  Keep in mind some things change 
> between 12.0 and 12.2, such as AAA configuration (i.e., 12.0 has no AAA 
> groups, 12.2 does), so keep this in mind when/if you go backwards in 
> versions.  We also have found that particularly reliable.
> 
> The software version question does come up regularly, and the 7206 is 
> arguably the most common box in c-nsp land.  If you had searched the 
> archives, which are available in searchable form at 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cisco-nsp&r=1&w=2 , you would definitely 
> have found what you were looking for. (e.g. 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cisco-nsp&w=2&r=1&s=stable+IOS&q=b).
> 
> -andrew
> 
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