[c-nsp] IOS Upgrade to SXI3

[Mackinnon, Ian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de]
> Sent: 11 December 2009 16:07
> To: Mackinnon, Ian
> Cc: Bautista, Noel; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IOS Upgrade to SXI3
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:52:54PM +0000, Mackinnon, Ian wrote:
> > >From what I remember of recent discussions on here, modular is to
be
> > avoided.
> > It has no benefit (there have not been any patches) and is not used
> as
> > much so not tested by real life use.
> 
> Well, in theory it should at least have the benefit of proper memory
> protection between processes, and thus, less likely to crash the whole
> box if a process does stupid things.
> 
Interesting, so given the email earlier today by somebody experiencing
BGP problems at a well known IX with lots of sessions where the other
end is shut down, would this have still been an issue?

It's been a while since I looked at modular, but is there not a large
"IOS" process that is most things in one place anyway?

Ian

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