[c-nsp] Warm reload in Cisco 6500

Keegan Holley keegan.holley at sungard.com
Tue Jan 4 11:45:15 EST 2011


The link above says it's available on the 6500 which is definitely not CPU
based or non-distributed.  I was hoping for something like NSF where it just
trusts the info in TCAM while the reload/re-convergence happens in the
control-plane only.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 04/01/11 16:08, Keegan Holley wrote:
>
>> Is traffic still forwarded during the reload?  It's not explicitly
>> mentioned whether or not the reload is control plane only.
>>
>
> My understanding was that warm-reload was primarily available on CPU-based,
> non-distributed platforms and therefore traffic forwarding stops - you are
> after all reloading the entire (monolithic) IOS image.
>
> Having said that, I've never used the feature, because it's not available
> on platforms we find "interesting".
>
>


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