[c-nsp] Upgrade NPE-400 to NPE-G1

[Rich Davies]

Joseph,

Some things to consider here:

- The NPE-G1 you plan on using, I would boot this up in a spare 7206
chassis and confirm that it boots up normally without any abnormal errors.
 Test it out if you have a spare 7206 chassis and a power supply.

- The NPE-G1 has an integrated IO (input output) - meaning the old IO board
on the front of the 7206 (with the DB25 console and aux ports and 10/100
eth port) you remove that and rely on controlling (configuring) the NPE-G1
via its integrated IO (the NPE-G1 has RJ-45 console right on it...  so you
just take the old IO board out of the front, swap the NPE 400 and NPE-G1
and boot it up.

- The GIGE ports on the NPE-G1 have higher bandwidth capacity than the PCI
bus on the 7200.   Try to use the 10/100/1000 gige connections directly on
the NPE-G1 versus using a Gige or FastE port adapter will save CPU.

- This is not hot swappable you will have downtime during this swap.

- As long as the IOS that is on the NPE-G1 has the same feature sets that
you currently rely on with the NPE-400 your configuration should be able to
move over.   Your NPE-400 configuration is stored on NVRAM so again best
thing to do is get copy of current config (either via TFTP or copy/paste),
boot up the NPE-G1 in spare chassis, and configure it.   Then when its time
to do the swap now you are just swapping the NPE's (and pulling out the IO
board) and wont have to worry about trying to config it on the fly during
your maintenance using a new route processor.


I hope this helps.


Rich



On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Joseph Mays <mays at win.net> wrote:

> I have a cisco 7206 VXR with NPE-400 running c7200-ik9su2-mz.123-23.bin. I
> have an NPE-G1 card now that I would like to put in the router instead. Can
> I just swap the NPE-400 for the G1 card and expect it to work? I’m
> attaching the show ver on the NPE-400 system showing the bootloader, IOS,
> etc.
>
> core-gw1.noc#show ver
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-IK9SU2-M), Version 12.3(23), RELEASE
> SOFTWARE (fc5)
> Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
> Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Tue 24-Jul-07 21:42 by stshen
> Image text-base: 0x60008AF4, data-base: 0x61F61720
>
> ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-BOOT-M), Version 12.0(24)S, EARLY DEPLOYMENT
> RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
>
> core-gw1.noc uptime is 1 year, 14 weeks, 6 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes
> System returned to ROM by power-on
> System restarted at 16:57:27 EDT Tue May 21 2013
> System image file is "disk0:c7200-ik9su2-mz.123-23.bin"
>
>
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> cisco 7206VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 491520K/32768K bytes of
> memory.
> Processor board ID 20399590
> R7000 CPU at 350MHz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.3, 256KB L2 Cache
> 6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0
>
> Last reset from power-on
> Bridging software.
> X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
>
> PCI bus mb0_mb1 (Slots 0, 1, 3 and 5) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth
> points.
> Current configuration on bus mb0_mb1 has a total of 800 bandwidth points.
> The set of PA-2FE, PA-POS-2OC3, and I/O-2FE qualify for "half
> bandwidth points" consideration, when full bandwidth point counting
> results in oversubscription, under the condition that only one of the
> two ports is used. With this adjustment, current configuration on bus
> mb0_mb1 has a total of 800 bandwidth points.
> This configuration has oversubscripted the PCI bus and is not a
> supported configuration.
>
> PCI bus mb2 (Slots 2, 4, 6) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
> Current configuration on bus mb2 has a total of 380 bandwidth points
> This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.
>
> Please refer to the following document "Cisco 7200 Series Port Adaptor
> Hardware Configuration Guidelines" on Cisco.com <http://www.cisco.com>
> for c7200 bandwidth points oversubscription and usage guidelines.
>
> WARNING: PCI bus mb0_mb1 Exceeds 600 bandwidth points
>
> 3 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> 2 Serial network interface(s)
> 125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
>
> 46976K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 512 bytes).
> 4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
> Configuration register is 0x102
>
> core-gw1.noc#
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