[c-nsp] ASR9K IOS-XR 4.3.2 or 5.1.0

[Claes Jansson]

Thank you all for your input, i think i'll have a go at 4.3.2 then. 
Since I don't have the luxuary of waiting in this case :-)

But i will do some serious reading of release notes before i give it a 
try...

tnx

//Claes

On 2013-09-25 10:03, Adam Vitkovsky wrote:

> Hi,
> If you have to pick now than I believe the 4.3.2 would be a better choice
> compared to the brand new branch of 5.1.0.
> Personally I'm waiting for at least 4.3.3 or even 4.3.4 as a long term code
> as it has all the major features we need and hopefully majority of the nasty
> bugs are going to be fixed by then.
> Since the upgrade process in a production network is such a PITA hopefully
> we'll be able to thrive on 4.3.4 + SMUs till we decide to switch from MPLS
> to SR :)
>
> Just read through the release notes caveats to see whether something strikes
> your eye and check out the SMUs available.
>
> adam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
> Claes Jansson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 2:59 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] ASR9K IOS-XR 4.3.2 or 5.1.0
>
> Hi, we're currently running 4.2.3 and need to upgrade to get support for
> A9K-MPA-8X10GE.
>
> Both releases are quite fresh, does anyone have any input on pros and cons
> on witch release to try out..?
>      I've read that downgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.2.x could be a problem...
>
> We're running L2 and L3 vpn to ME3600X devices and about 400 IPTV
> streams/channels in 4 vrf's (pim/gmp peering).
>
> Tnx!
>
> --
> Claes Jansson
>
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