[c-nsp] best ios version for VSS

[Alasdair McWilliam]

I have used 12.2(33)SXI1 on a VSS but encountered a *very* nasty bug triggered when performing an SSO failover, which causes STP to get its knickers in a twist. Ultimately we had to just power the whole thing off (both chassis) to break the loops and restore service, but the whole installation was offline for much longer than a reboot because ACE modules take flipping ages to boot...

I now run 12.2(33)SXI2 on VSS with a 'workaround' for a memory leak bug (fixed in SXI2a) and it's been rock solid. Touch wood.

I've run 12.2(33)SXI3 on some non-VSS nodes but the upgrade breaks SSH beyond repair (to my knowledge?) if you do an SSO failover, so these are going to be downgraded back to SXI2a.

HTH




On 27 Jan 2010, at 14:01, Holemans Wim wrote:

> We have a VSS running, L2 only for the moment. We plan to enable L3
> (static routing only for the moment) next week (along with a FWSM board
> in each chassis).
> 
> We are running version s72033-advipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI1.bin for
> the moment (I know this version has too much features for what we need
> for the moment)
> 
> The problems we had with this version until now :
> 
> -          One of the supervisors rebooted spontaneously leaving no
> traces on why it restarted
> 
> -          ISSU (I don't remember what the version was we started the
> upgrade) didn't work, so I had to boot both chassis manually, giving a
> much higher downtime than expected
> 
> -          The activation of the first FWSM (inserted with power down
> for that specific module, followed by power up of the module), caused a
> crash and reboot of the supervisor of the chassis in with the FWSM was
> inserted.
> 
> 
> 
> So anyone has comments on to which version we eventually should upgrade
> to before going to L3 ? (downtime will have a much larger impact from
> that moment on).
> 
> I found on the cisco website there is a version 12.2.33-SXH6(ED) and a
> version 12.2.33-SXI3(ED) available.
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> 
> Wim Holemans
> 
> Network Services
> 
> University of Antwerp
> 
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