[c-nsp] VSS out-of-band mgmt

[Peter Rathlev]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:47 -0700, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote:
> Perhaps things have improved, but at one time for the 6500
> platform certain functions could only be performed in the
> "native"(? is that the right word) context, and you needed
> to place all the rest of your traffic/interfaces in a VRF
> leaving the "native" context for management (sort of the
> reverse of your proposal, instead have a "Internet" VRF
> for everything except for management).
> 
> Have the latest IOS versions eliminated those challenges
> on the 6500?

Not that I know of. RADIUS og SNMP can take a VRF argument but neither
of syslogging, TACACS or Netflow can AFAICT. It doesn't seem to have
changed between SXF and SXI.

OTOH a serial OOB method couldn't easily transport these protocols
either.

Regards,
Peter