[j-nsp] MX480 troubles.

[Keith]

On 4/13/2011 9:45 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:18:00 AM Keith wrote:
>
>> Is this an anomaly and we got a lemon? Or have any others
>> had to replace this many parts in so short of time?
>
> Like others have mentioned, some batches are good, some
> aren't.
>
> We haven't had any hardware issues with a couple of units we
> shipped in running DPC's.
>
> However, we've had to RMA an MPC and MIC on some other units
> that came in just days after they were deployed.
>
> Prior to moving to Junos 10.4R3.4, we had weekly random
> reboots of MPC's for no apparent reason. This was mostly
> when we were running 10.4R1.9. Upgrading to the latest
> release of 10.4 has fixed those issues, so that was bugs in
> the code.
>
> We're still touch-and-go, but so far so good with the MPC's.

We saw random reboots, sometimes hourly, with the first MPC
and this was on 10.4R2.6. Juniper wanted to RMA it.

When the latest MPC and MIC arrive I will update to 10.4R3.4
and see how that goes.

Thanks Mike.

Keith