[j-nsp] 9.3 and M20 FPC

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacy W. Smith [mailto:stacy at acm.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:39 AM
> To: Eric Van Tol
> Cc: juniper-nsp
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] 9.3 and M20 FPC
> 
>  From the 9.3 release notes:
> 
> "On M20 routers running JUNOS Release 9.3 and later, nonenhanced FPCs do
> not come online because of memory limitations. These FPCs appear as
> FPC in
> the Description column of the output from the show chassis hardware
> command.
> As announced in Technical Bulletin PSN-2004-08-024, these FPCs have
> not been
> supported since 31 December 2004. (To access the bulletin, log in at
> https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?txtAlertNumber=PSN-2004-08-
> 024&actionBtn=Search.)
> [PR/291610]"
> 
> --Stacy

Understood.  Since this is the case, I'd suggest that Juniper fix their JUNOS Hardware Validation tool:

http://tools.juniper.net/microcode/

They're getting into Cisco IOS Software Advisor territory by allowing invalid hardware configurations to get past the tool that's supposed to help spot such things.

-evt