[c-nsp] 12.2SR PB on CCO for 65xx and 76xx split

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Wed Feb 21 12:58:37 EST 2007


On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:50:40PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> 
> > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps368/prod_bulletin0900aecd805df25d.html
> 
> Lame.  There seems to be an implied admission that 12.2SX and 12.2SR are 
> both totally capable of ignoring the label on the chassis, but 12.2SR will 
> cease doing that except for special cases (I suppose where a customer 
> convinces cisco that they will in fact buy new chassis, but not all at 
> once).
> 
> Is it at least safe to assume that if we're satisfied with the current L3 
> feature-set in 12.2SXn (i.e. routing protocols, MPLS, netflow, etc.) that 
> cisco's not going to pull the rug out from under us and say "oh, you 
> wanted a router, go buy a 7600 chassis)?

	the SX* software has no current plans to implement any of these
silly checks.  If you're happy with SX*, stick with it.  I'd avoid
buying a 7600 unless there's a compelling technical reason.  it's surely
not a service provider platform as it has no software modularity.

	- jared

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