[c-nsp] 6500 stable code

[Jay Ford]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Jon Lewis wrote:
> I'm getting ready to spin the IOS roullette wheel again with a 6500 that's 
> been running 12.2(18)SXF12a as a hot spare.  Safe Harbor says 12.2(18)SXF13 
> is "Recommended" and the last version of SXF they plan to say anything about. 
> The pdf link
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/safe_harbor/campus/12_18_sxf13/Campus_12.2(18)SXF13.pdf
> is dead.
>
> In the software center, I see there have been a few additional releases, and 
> in fact if I try to get 12.2(18)SXF13, I get a warning that there have been 
> serious issues found in it and 12.2(18)SXF14 is recommended.  When I try to 
> get 12.2(18)SXF14, I see it's got even more issues, and 12.2(18)SXF15 is 
> recommended....The first one I get to that doesn't give me warnings of 
> serious issues and reommend the next release is 12.2.18-SXF15a.  So...has 
> anyone been running 12.2.18-SXF15a (which is apparently the latest of SXF) in 
> a BGP/OSPF environment and care to chime in about its stability or lack 
> thereof?

I've been running the "ADVANCED IP SERVICES SSH" image of 12.2(18)SXF15a 
(file s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF15a.bin) in several 6500+720 
boxes since early Nov 2008 with little/no trouble.  I run BGP & ISIS 
(formerly OSPF), IPv4 unicast/multicast, & IPv6 unicast;  nothing else very 
weird.

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Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
email: jay-ford at uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951