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

[Timh Bergström]

Hehe ok, thanks all for the input.

It's quite weird, especially since I can "upgrade" the system to a
full  MX80 with licences only, and if I do that I expect that I will
be able to run my standard release (10.4R8.5) which I run on my other
MX80s (which is the full MX80 btw).

So basically, I feel a bit cheated that I had to "wait" for MX5 to be
released when I could get a MX80-5G.

I'm going to try to install 11.2R5.4 (recommended release) on it now,
I do not trust a R1-release. Ever. ;-) I might also try create a
technical support ticket or raise hell with my SR to try to make the
10.4-series to support MX5/10/40s unless someone else has done it
already.

//T

2012/3/22 Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org>:
> Yeah, we just ran into this weird release issue with hardware not being supported - in this case MX10-T ....
>
> Anyways, I did do a no validate on a downgrade and it was miserable (had to reinstall OS via USB key).  Live and learn ... ;)
>
> Running 11.2R5.4 on a pair of them at moment - as long as you're not doing BRAS functions it seems to work ok with BGP/MPLS/OSPF/IPv6
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Antti Ristimäki
> Sent: March-22-12 7:22 AM
> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] JunOS 10.4R8.5 on MX5? Am I forced to run 11.4+?
>
> 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/t
>> opic-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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