[c-nsp] 7513 T3 Card Question

[Pete Templin]

David Coulson wrote:

> Honestly, never had a 'fake' outage in my time of using RSPs. That said, 
> my last NPE failure was a lot longer than 360s because it never came up 
> after rebooting.

What failover tool (RPR, RPR+, SSO) are you using?  I've had plenty of 
surprises.  Sometimes it's just the standby RSP rebooting itself, but 
it's a service-impacting event as well.

>> Nutshell: I want 7206s (NPE-225, 2xOC3 uplinks, 4xPA-MC-2T3) for my 
>> ongoing CT3 deployments.
> 
> I agree - Splitting stuff up across multiple routers is always a "good 
> thing". Right now my 7500s experiences have been happy enough, plus from 
> a troubleshooting perspective I've got a bias towards that rather than 
> 7200 since I'm more familiar with funky things they do and how to get 
> around it.

I can't get rid of my VIP2-50s fast enough (or my 7500s for that 
matter).  Since a VIP is basically a 7202 in a card, I figure why go 
with the added complexity of a 7500.  Rodney Dunn has said time and time 
again that the 7500s were and are a challenge, since the platform has to 
accommodate VIP->VIP, VIP->IP, IP->IP, and IP->VIP switching.  7200 
doesn't have that challenge, and GSR was designed from the ground up as 
a dCEF box, so the code is much cleaner in that respect.