[c-nsp] Cisco 7500 High Availability

[neal rauhauser]

  They've got four 7507s with RSP4, 12.0.32S IPsec, they're running BGP, 
OSPF, and they've got PA-FE-TX and PA-T3 in VIP-2/50s. And of course 
they don't have Smartnet, because that doesn't come with Ebay purchases :-)






Rodney Dunn wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 03:54:13PM -0500, neal rauhauser wrote:
>>
>>    I've got a customer with some 75xx that have dual RSP4s in them. 
>> We've got identical dram/flash/12.0.32S code on them and I've started 
>> fooling with the high availability stuff. I've received feedback from a 
>> couple people on NANOG that this doesn't work very well - the four to 
>> eight minute recovery RPR works, but the faster modes do not behave.
> 
> You will always get various levels of answers to questions like that.
> You should always ask for more specifics like "EXACTLY what code were
> you running, what EXACTLY did your full configuration look like, etc.."
> 
> For all we know they were running protocols that are not HA supported.
> 
> For raw IP on standard Ethernet and WAN circuits (not PPPoX type
> aggregation) SSO mode should work just fine in later code.
> We don't support PPPoX HA on the 75xx (well, we don't like to say
> PPPoanything is supported on that platform).
> 
> 
>>   Can anyone comment on this? I'd like to make it go for this guy, but I 
>> don't want to spend forty hours learning all of the failure modes for a 
>> software product that works better on other hardware platforms ...
>>
>>
>>
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