[j-nsp] JunOS 10.4R8.5 on MX5? Am I forced to run 11.4+?

[Antti Ristimäki]

11.2R4.3 worked with our MX5/MX40s, although we upgraded to 11.2R6.3
because of a mib2d memory leak in 11.2R4.3. Other than that, it worked
pretty OK at least with trivial config.

AR

On 03/22/2012 10:13 AM, Tima Maryin wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Here:
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos11.2/information-products/topic-collections/release-notes/11.2/topic-57399.html
>
>
> "New MX5, MX10, and MX40 3D Universal Edge Routers—Three new routers 
> based on the modular MX80 chassis are available in Junos OS Release 11.2R6."
>
>
> Though in 11.4 relnotes it's 11.2R3 :-/
> So you probably should try 11.2R6.
>
>
>
>
> On 22.03.2012 11:16, Timh Bergström wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently bought a MX5-T (Instead of the MX80-5G) and I'm running
>> 10.4R8.5 on my other MX80s and would naturally like to run the same
>> codebase on all my MX-series hardware. However when I try to install
>> the 10.4R8.5 release on the MX5-T it says that the platform is not
>> supported, I thought the MX5/10/40 was the same hardware as the MX80
>> (it surely looks the same, side-by-side)?
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts or information on this? It got delivered
>> with 11.4R1.14 and I actually have no use of imix/etc whatever the new
>> features is in the 11.X, I just want to run them as network edges with
>> eBGP, iBGP and OSPF, no special stuff, and I'm happy with 10.4R8.5 so
>> far.
>>
>> I also tried (for fun) to downgrade to 11.2R5.4 (which is the
>> recommended release according to JTAC) but that didn't work either,
>> the mgd process core-dumped and the validation failed, I did not run
>> with "no-validate" (yet) for neither of the softwares.
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