[c-nsp] 12.2(18)SXD to 12.2(33)SRB|C|D

[Jason Lixfeld]

Upgraded to SRC4 last night and everything went pretty smoothly.

A couple things I'm wondering if anyone has seen with SRC4:

1-  When SRC4 booted, we were a little paniced when we saw that a  
bunch of our SFP ports were now dark.  We resolved it by pulling the  
fiber and the SFP and reseating each.  The original theory in doing  
that was to check to see if the SFP was genuine Cisco to see if we  
needed to enable service unsupported-transceiver but the side-effect  
was that it actually brought the port up.  We were able to get all our  
dark ports up this way before enabling transceiver support so we don't  
think it was related to that command (but enabled it for good measure).

2- We had to enable ip mtu 1500 on a few interfaces that had their  
port mtu cranked into jumbo range for OSPF to work.  Why we didn't  
have to do this in SXD is curious, but we are happy that SRC operates  
correctly (by showing us where our configs were inconsistent).

3- There is one device on the network (an ASR1002 running 2.4.0) that  
is unable to see the loopback address via OSPF from this 7600 we just  
upgraded.  It's built an adjacency with the 7600, so it's not an MTU  
thing, it just doesnt see the route for it's loopback interface.  We  
didn't do much digging into it last night because there was an  
alternate path on the ASR so we felt we could leave it till the AM,  
but strange indeed.  It may too be a misconfguration that SRC expects,  
which SXD was relaxed about but I  thought I'd ask anyway.

On 2009-09-15, at 6:45 AM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 04:39:53 am Richard A
> Steenbergen wrote:
>
>> Personally my recommendation for going forward is SRC
>> (SRC4 is pretty stable, all things considered).
>
> Would also recommend SRC; we have it largely deployed on a
> number of 7200's.
>
> SRC4 is stable, but a few issues, that will be resolved in
> SRC5, hound us. Nothing major, probably not faced by many
> others...
>
> Point is, SRC is probably a more mature release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.