On 2010-04-11 13:15, Franck Martin wrote:
This is the document I quoted in my first email. ok for 2500, 2600 they are EOL, but still out there..
A lot of boxes is still out there, sure. Some of them can't be upgraded, and it is not a problem unique only for Cisco.
but Gary says the software is too new to be used on prod, and you say there is no problem.
I didn't say there's no problem with the software - depending on your network size, features, load and millions other characteristics, some of the software may be unusable, where others will say "it works for me". 7600 guys should follow 12.2SR track, so the 12.2(33)SRE and rebuils are natural way of going forward. ISR guys (access) are usually implementing a multiservice boxes, so need new features - and they appear in 15.0(1)M, as entire 12.4T line is going EoS/EoL soon. For the legacy platforms, like 1600, 1700, 2600, 3600, 3700 the last software that runs is 12.4(15)T and rebuilds - and while it's unfortunate they don't support 32 bit ASNs, they reached EoS status before the feature was implemented, so according to Cisco rules, no new features can appear in EoSed software, only fixes. In reality, you either test yourself if the software is OK for your network, or pay for such tests/audit. While the line 'trust your vendor' looks nice, people usually do test before deployment. So you may get thousands of different opinions what's working and what is not, but for such discussions it would be better to move to cisco-nsp@. -- "Everything will be okay in the end. | Łukasz Bromirski If it's not okay, it's not the end." | http://lukasz.bromirski.net