[c-nsp] SXH1 - lab tested/live router

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:01:37PM -0600, mack wrote:
> Has anyone other than cisco lab tested or put SXH1 into production yet?
> I am still waiting on approval for lab time.
> 
> The bug fixes most relevant to me are:
> 
> DOM support for older XENPAKs (supposedly fixed)
> Stability Improvements (a number of bug fixes)
> Insertion of a line into an active BGP loopback group leading to uneven traffic distribution requiring hard bgp reset to rectify.
> memory/cpu usage tracking via SNMP in the modular version.
> 
> The DOM support had kept us from considering upgrading to SXH.
> The SNMP cpu usage tracking kept us from considering modular versions.

DOM is most definitely fixed in SXH1 and SRC, which is a Very Good Thing 
(tm).

I'm personally still torn about which way to go after SXF. SXH seems to 
have mostly good reviews as far as stability, and offers modular code that 
does MPLS and IPv6 now, but seems to be missing a few critical features 
that only exist in SRB+ (such as a functional route-map continue for 
outbound routes, and netflow sampling which stands at least the slightest 
chance of being usable by only sampling packets on interfaces you actually 
WANT sampled in netflow).

Honestly neither train seems to offer a complete solution, which seems to 
prove that Cisco is doing its customers a great disservice by playing 
business unit games with the 6500/7600 software.

I don't know if I have the balls to run SRC so soon after its initial 
release, but maybe SRB3 will have the DOM fix. Also, for the love of god, 
can someone please encourage Cisco to fix ip policy-list so it can match 
NAMED community-lists instead of just numbered lists. This is the only way 
to do a logical and on component policies and make route-maps suck even 
the slightest bit less, and its all but unusable because of such a simple 
oversight. :)

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