[j-nsp] RE2/RE3 and unwarranted reboots

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Wed Jun 29 03:10:05 EDT 2005


Hi,

If you have RE 3.0 in M20 running in slot 1, and insert RE2 in slot 0 
(e.g., maintenance), RE 3.0 reboots.

So, who's bright idea was it to:

  1. make the code so fragile so that RE 2.0 / RE 3.0 combination does
     not work properly;

  2. stop selling RE 2.0's, so folks who would want to keep running
     RE-2.0's can't continue using them; and

  3. don't fix the abovementioned critical bug, citing that the
     documentation doesn't recommend mixing RE 2.0's and RE 3.0's.

It seems completely unacceptable to require having a spare part supply 
of _both_ RE-2.0 and RE-3.0's, or doing a very disruptive (and costly) 
throughout upgrade to RE-3.0 just to get around that particular 
problem.


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