[j-nsp] Update on 10.4R9 stability for MX?

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:13:26PM -0400, Clarke Morledge wrote:
> It has been a couple of months since the JTAC recommended Junos 
> software versions has been updated for the MX.  As of February, the 
> recommendation was to use 10.4R8.5 for the MX, except that there is an 
> issue related to BFD configurations on the DPC line cards.  
> Supposedly, the fix is in 10.4R9.
> 
> In looking at the release notes, there are some issues that have been 
> resolved in the 11.x series but nothing noted yet for any future 
> 10.4.x releases.  Perhaps there are future 10.4.x versions planned to 
> carry forward these fixes?
> 
> I am curious to know about anyone's experience with 10.4R9 over the 
> past few months.  I have DPC only currently; i.e. no MPC hardware -- 
> and no MultiServices.

There is a serious issue with MPLS RSVP auto-bandwidth in 10.4R9, which 
can cause the reservation calculations to be off by quite a bit. The 
least broken code we've found so far is 10.4S9, I'm surprised they 
haven't done an R10 yet.

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