[c-nsp] Cat6500 - Support for MPLS and IPv6

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Mon Apr 14 04:22:20 EDT 2008


Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote:
>> Cross our fingers what? Cross our fingers that they'll neglect
>> IOS in favour of IOS XE? How does that help anyone?
> 
> IOS XE *is* IOS. It 'just' runs on another kernel.

Like ION, which is a shining beacon of software reliability *snort*.

> 
>> Honestly, I don't mean to sound too combative, but Cisco do 
>> not need to be diversifying at this point; they need to be
>> focussing.
> 
> Yes, but IOS 'classic' clearly doesn't have the infrastructure
> needed. (If it did, the BUs would not all work on something
> different).

I have no objection to a single new IOS.


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