I'm finding this to be a fascinating thread as I am currently in the process of evaluating some M7i's vs. some ASR1002's. Seems the Jun's have settled into a less reflexive release schedule then the ASRs currently. At some point I'm sure the ASR's release schedule will settle into a trend more like that of the SXI on the 6.5k or the SRx on the 7.6k. I too, will need BGP Netflow Traffic profiling/NBAR uRPF micro packet bursts etc., and hoping to keep it in all in hardware. This may be better suited for the Cisco-nsp list, but I am interested, as I'm sure is the OP, in more opinions of stable releases/trains. Maybe a question better suited for the cisco-nsp list. thanks all -b On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:08 PM, McDonald Richards < mcdonald.richards@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd recommend 2.4.x (XNDx) unless you REALLY need the BGP PIC features in 2.5. 2.4 was the first release to support L2VPNs and should be mature enough in it's general support of MPLS/VRFs. 2.5 is still VERY new and was only released publicly in December.
2.4.2 still has a few bugs but for the features you've listed above, should be stable enough. After running it since it's release (2.3.2 previously) I've not seen a software crash on any of our ASR1Ks. I run a mix of RP1 and RP2 devices and since this an ASR1002 you'll be after the RP1 code.
McDonald
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
I would run at least the 2.5 software (XNE).
You don't mention if you have RP1 or RP2, if you're doing sw redundancy or hw redundancy or both, etc.. This will also have an impact.
I've seen some 'odd' issues with BGP on the ASR1k, so you really do want to track the latest code. It's also recommended to keep a close eye on your memory utilization and if/when any cores show up on the harddisk(s).
- Jared
On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote:
Anyone have recommendations on solid IOS XE code for ASR 1002 that's just doing:
- BGP - VRF's - Many sub-interfaces and ACL's
It shipped with 02.04.02.122-33.XND2.bin
Thanks, Kenny
-- Bill Blackford Network Engineer