[c-nsp] ios roulette blues (6500/7600 SXF)

[Robert Boyle]

At 09:59 AM 3/20/2007, you wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Robert Boyle wrote:
>
>>At 12:36 AM 3/20/2007, you wrote:
>>>We've also had some issues getting the sup720's to boot SXF code.
>>>Unfortunately, I haven't been on-site, and I don't have good intel on
>>>exactly what happened, but with confreg set to 0x2102 and several valid
>>>boot system flash disk0:... statements followed by a fallback boot system
>>>flash sup-bootflash:... statement, the unit ended up refusing to boot
>>
>>Dumb question, but are you running the latest ROMMON code? We are 
>>running the same version you are trying and it works fine without 
>>any problems - however, we are also running the latest ROMMON code.
>
>I think that may have been it.  We'd never looked at the ROMMON 
>code. It's been using the ROMMON code stored in the ROM/Gold region

Great.

>Am I correct in assuming there's no reason to mess with the 
>rom-monitor code on the RP?

We also upgrade the RP as a matter of course.

Also, looking back at the crafted tcp packet advisory, I see I was 
mistaken and we don't necessarily need to go to SXF latest...they did 
a rebuild of SXD7 which we could use and I've downloaded now.  I 
suppose we'll give it a try next and put off dealing with whatever 
causes the IP forwarding failures we saw with SXF7 and 
SXF8.  Upgrading the ROMMON will hopefully fix our booting issues, 
but I doubt it'll have any impact on the SXF code not quite working.

>Our CF cards are 512mb...so we have plenty of room for lots of images.

You could be running into something else, but some ROMMON low level 
code is called by IOS and it can have an impact on the way things 
work. I don't know if that is the case for you, but it wouldn't be 
the first time. I would recommend the rebuild if it is working for 
you otherwise and you don't need to move to SXF.

-Robert



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