[c-nsp] ASR9k 4.3.4 vs 5.1.3

Jared Mauch jared at puck.Nether.net
Thu Aug 21 12:11:21 EDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 03:48:06PM +0000, Vitkovský Adam wrote:
> Hi folks, Jared, Nick,
> 
> I'm wondering what influenced your decision to go/risk it with 5.1.x rather than 4.3.4 ? 
> Was it any must have feature, hardware support requirement or bug fixes or a bit of all please? 
> I'm asking as personally I'm really afraid of the 5.x.x train and thus decided to go with 4.3.4 which is being evaluated currently. 


	What is your rational fear about 5.x?

	We have 5.1.2 operational and hit some defects, they are all fixed in 5.1.3
through very close work with Cisco.

	We never ran 4.3 but I have heard that 4.3.4 is fairly stable as well.

	I would hold off on 5.1 until 5.1.3 is released, which should be soon.

	- Jared

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