[c-nsp] ASR920 Port Licensing

[Shawn L]

Interesting.  It is full of surprises.  So that brings up the next
question..... what happens when someone upgrades the IOS and the licensing
model changes?

I can definitely see a situation where that happens and ports that used to
be in service are now unlicensed.  That'll be a fun one to troubleshoot in
the middle of the night.

Shawn

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:43 AM Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:42:41AM -0500, Shawn L wrote:
> > On the new router that was sent, only 6 ports are operational.  The
> other 6
> > are disabled, and won't enable, giving me license error when I try.
> > Cisco's telling me that the licenses on both the new and old routers
> match,
> > so their job is done.
>
> Port usability without license on ASR920 changed between software versions.
>
> We do not have the 12x10 models, but we have the 12x1+2x10 models, and
> they changed from "you can only use ports /1../6" to "you can use any
> port, but only 6 in total" at some point int the past....
>
> That said, if you have the same software version on the RMA'ed device,
> it definitely should behave the same.
>
> *That* said, the ASR920 BU is full of interesting *ahem* surprises.
>
> gert
>
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