[c-nsp] ASR opinions..

[Andrew Jones]

I wanted to use the software supervisor redundancy one some ASR1002's I deployed recently, but couldn't due to the use of PKI certificate authentication for IPsec. probably a good thing I couldn't do it now...

Cheers,

Andrew Jones
Alphawest

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
Sent: Sunday, 21 August 2011 3:40 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Cc: jared at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

On Sunday, August 21, 2011 08:28:22 AM John Elliot wrote:

> Hi, Looking at the 1002's

We like the ASR1002's, but while we haven't used them in a broadband aggregation role, we find the RP1 very slow, particularly when saving configurations and such. But then again, the ASR1002's RP is a fixed unit inside the chassis and can't be upgraded.

I'd also suggest not enabling the software redundancy for IOS. This essentially uses up all available memory and will eventually cause the router to crash and reboot. Since we buy the ASR1002's and operate them in physically redundant chassis' doing the same thing, we can do without the software redundancy. I expect the ASR1004's to have the same problem, which is why we never buy them and either go for the ASR1002 or ASR1006 or higher. The ASR1006 and above will offer hardware-based control plane redundancy.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Mark.