[c-nsp] ISR G2 "multicore"?

[Frank Bulk - iName.com]

I would have to disagree -- while there are some features shared by most
configurations, there's enough implementations using particular 'knobs' that
a less than complete feature set would leave the majority of network
engineers frustrated.  For example, pick the less than complete
implementation of BFD.

Frank

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On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:53 PM, James Weathersby (jweather) wrote:

>  A lot of it has to do with the different roles the routers play.

The smartest/sanest thing to do, IMHO, would be to work at migrating  
to NX-OS, feature-set by feature-set.  It's by far the cleanest and  
best-designed OS platform Cisco have come out with to date.

And, yes, whilst there are 4500+ features in IOS, the overwhelming  
majority of customers use a miniscule fraction of them.  The idea  
would be to start with major features and gradually work towards minor  
ones, which would allow customers who don't need the more esoteric  
features to migrate over to the better/cleaner/more stable OS - which  
would also end up reducing the burden on account teams, TAC, et. al.

This probably won't happen due to NIH/BU politics, but it would sure  
be nice, heh.

;>

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