[c-nsp] NPE-300 & 12.3

[Rodney Dunn]

George,

Contrary to some folks opinion this is not done to try and
drive upsale to newer processors. It's simply us trying
to inform customers that the processor is not being tested
and we don't claim support on those releases. That's why
the EOS/EOL policy is updated with the release information.
I wish we'd do it for every EOS/EOL policy so there isn't
a discrepancy between some date and what the exact code
version is. I try and get the BU's to do it as the dates
come.

That being said it will probably work and pretty unlikely
you will see an issue. But in the event something does
break Cisco is not obligated to fix it like what happened
with the NPE-150 before.

So it's one of those situations where run at your own risk.

Rodney

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:58:26AM +0200, George Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 7206VXR with NPE-300 which had been running 12.3(16). After
> upgrading to 12.3(17) , I noticed the following lines from sh ver.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> This Version of Cisco IOS Software is not supported on NPE300.
> Please select a version of Cisco IOS software compatible with
> this processor from http://www.cisco.com.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This warning is absent on 12.3(16). I searched Cisco website, and found
> this :
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/prod_eol_notice0900aecd801bd0f7.html
> 
> >From this article, I understand that after 12.3(10b), maintenance
> releases don't care about NPE-300. 12.3(16) had been fine for us on this
> router, but it seems following maintenance releases is meaningless as
> long as I continue using NPE-300. So, should I stop upgrading on
> platforms using NPE-300 ? I had no problems with 12.3(16), but should I
> downgrade to 12.3(10b) in case there may be a bug regarding NPE-300 but
> not fixed on later releases ?
> 
> 
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