[j-nsp] looking for mx960 stable junos for peering issues

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:07:46 -0600
> From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>
> Sender: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> 
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:34:53AM +0200, Arda Balkanay wrote:
> > Hi List,

> > We have several MX series which will be used for peering issues
> > (upstream > peering, customers, inter-as mpls peerings etc).  > Which
> > junos release do you think is the most stable one to use for this kind
> > of purpose ? I'm checking current PRs but experience will be great
> > input for
> 
> 9.2R3 is above and beyond the best JUNOS for MX960 in my experience. It 
> fixed a lot of outstanding issues and has been quite stable so far.

But you need to be aware that the 4-byte ASN/Confed issue is present in
9.2R3. See JTAC Tech Bulletin PSN-2009-01-200 for the details or see the
NANOG thread at http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg14393.html
or the NANOG presentation at
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Monday/Davidson_asn4_breaks_light_N45.pdf
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4  EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751