[c-nsp] SXI out

[Tim Durack]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> Jared Mauch wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:44:43PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Making the same file for release notes of SXH and SXI makes /me think
>>> that SXH4 won't see the light... what do people have heard about it ?
>>>
>>> About SXI, does it look deployable or SXI3 or SXI4 is the version to look
>>> for ?
>>> (may be too soon to tell, I know)
>>>
>>
>>        I suspect SXI is highly deployable. :)
>>
>
> Did you mean "deployable" or "deplorable" ;o)
>
> Rubens,
>
> A briefing we had 18 months or so ago basically said:
>
>  * SXH - initial release, to be released shortly (hahaha) some 12.2(33)
> features, each "version" will have 12 months support
>
>  * SXI - major release, to be released later (hohoho) most features, will
> have the "extended" 24 months support that some SXF releases had
>
> Information is scanty (non-existent?) but I suspect something like the
> following happened:
>
>  * Work starts on SXH *and* SXI more or less simultaneously
>
>  * Problems start in SXH train e.g. they start to slip, finding VSS,
> sup720-10g and 6708/6716 linecard hardware support are harder
>
>  * SXH train gets even later - cisco add more manpower making it later
> still - eventually gets released in a pretty shabby state
>
>  * Meanwhile all this time SXI has been working on the "other" features and
> ironically since it's had a later deadline, has been going slower and is
> more on-track
>
> I personally doubt we will see much more of SXH. We'll probably see an
> SXH4, since there are known crash bugs in SXH3a, but I'd be surprised to see
> anything beyond that.
>
>
>
>
>>        It also appears that they now have ssh+ipv6 back in regular
>> ipservices
>> and you can get the lan only image too for those, meaning lots of flash
>> savings.
>>
>>        I've done some basic testing in the past ~12 hours of the
>> image and it seems to perform on par with our SXF counterparts.
>>
>
> I wonder if people are interested in coordinating their testing and pooling
> results?
>

Sounds like a good idea. I have four chassis running SXI modular, waiting to
go into production next week. OSPF/BGP/MPLS/HSRP type stuff configured and
working, no load on them at this point though.

Survived a bad experience with SXH2 this week, so I'm looking for something
better...


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