[c-nsp] 7206VXR (NPE300) & 12.3(17a)

[Vinny Abello]

Hi guys,

I was told by a Cisco tech:

"...officailly the NPE-300 is not supported after 12.3(10b)"

Will it work with code after that? Yes. We are using it as are other 
people. Could it break at any point in time as new code is released? 
Yes as well.

Also, taken from:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/routers/ps341/prod_eol_notice0900aecd801bd0f7.html

"End of bug fixes, patches, or regular maintenance releases. After 
this date, Cisco Engineering will no longer develop, repair, or 
maintain NPE-300 or C7200-I/O-FE. Product is removed from test beds. 
Cisco TAC continues to support P1 and P2 issues for NPE-300 and 
C7200-I/O-FE with workaround and patches where available. Customers 
need to upgrade to recommended release or hardware where no 
work-around exists. Software support ends in: 12.2(15)T, 12.0(29)S, 
12.1(19)E, and 12.3(10b)."

Software maintenance ended late 2004 and the absolute latest you can 
have support on the NPE-300 is the end of this year. Beyond that 
you're out of luck.

At 10:05 AM 2/7/2006, De Houwer, Wim wrote:
>Tassos,
>
>I've got the same problem on a AS5800 access server (which has 2
>components, a 7200 for routing/intelligence and a 5800 chassis for as a
>really big modem/E1 bank).
>
>As the NPE-300 goes EOL soon, it seems to be inserted into the code, but
>in my case it also works fine...
>
>One of the cisco TAC guys suggested that i would talk about this issue
>with our account manager @ cisco and look into the upgrade path towards
>the NPE-G1,
>which is in my opinion serious overkill as the load of the NPE-300 never
>goes above 30% CPU.
>
>I don't know how long support for the NPE-300 will be included into the
>ios code, but maybe Rodney or one of the other guys can shed some light
>onto this subject ...
>
>Cheers,
>
>Wim
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tassos Chatzithomaoglou [mailto:achatz at forthnet.gr]
>Sent: dinsdag 7 februari 2006 15:53
>To: cisco-nsp
>Subject: [c-nsp] 7206VXR (NPE300) & 12.3(17a)
>
>I've upgraded a 7206VXR (NPE300) to 12.3(17a) and "sh ver" displays:
>
>"This Version of Cisco IOS Software is not supported on NPE300"
>
>Is this something to worry? What exactly is not supported?
>On the other side, everything seems to be working fine on this router
>with this IOS...
>
>
>--
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>          Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
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>
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Vinny Abello
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