[c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/26/23 16:29, Phil Bedard wrote:

> SMUs were a good idea, but not really great in practice.  Most 
> customers I work with do not want to manage application level patches, 
> just entire images, even in cases where they are just a process restart.
>
> XR for a number of years now has had the concept of a “golden ISO”.  
> It’s a single image either built by Cisco or customers can build their 
> own that include the base software and the SMUs in a single image.  
> You just issue a single “install replace myiso.iso” and that’s it.
>

I did not know that. But then again, we haven't used IOS XR platforms in 
a while, because we got put off.

Basically, Cisco got this wrong the first time, took advice on what 
operators wanted to make it better, but fumbled still.

We moved on.

Mark.