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:

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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:

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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

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:20:59PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:

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Who knows how to unsubscribe the mail list?

look at the headers

i still read most of my mail with mutt, but in my experience, many "modern" interfaces (gmail/thunderrbird/etc) don't make it intuative to find and/or read the headers. i'm just sayin'....

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randy

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Inline (and diverse) replies, as it's more of a rant, but slightly relevant to the list ops if not the OP topic: 1 - On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 15:50 +0800, NetYourLife2007 wrote (well, at least his mailer declared itself to be...):

Mailer: Foxmail 6, 15, 201, 22 [cn]

Kenny's mail client may be slightly unfamiliar to most nanog users :) Not sure if that's relevant but it may be a contributory factor. Maybe the problem is that we're all too old and can remember what headers are and what they're useful for, but developers of these "modern" mail clients just want to hide all feature that even so much as _look like_ they have come from a CLI client. For example, I know several otherwise competent people who glaze over and fall asleep when I mention the Reply To: field. 2 - On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jim Mercer wrote:

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i still read most of my mail with mutt, but in my experience, many "modern" interfaces (gmail/thunderrbird/etc) don't make it intuative to find and/or read the headers.

agreed, after 18 month of trying to comply I still can't drive this Evolution thing that most "new Linux-on-the-Desktop" users get as a default install. I couldn't even find out how to bind the "h" key to headers after a month of looking, for example. I live in hope for a Mutt Bindings `extension`, if some developer can wake their grandparents for some memories. On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 09:50 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

In gmail you click "show details" and then there is a "unsubscribe from this mailing list"-link you can click. Might not be perfectly intuitive, but it's full functionality and quite easy.

Thank you, I've now (and only now) just found a similar thingy in this client. 18 months down the line....grrr Yet just testing it, it works for nanog, but not for 2 other lists I'm in, with similar correct headers 8-{ Are we (or rather the developers) losing the plot? I think many of today's "web-users" may consider email old-fashioned, so if the new `app-for-that` culture doesn't provide easy/basic access to `old-fashioned` features, things may slowly turn into interface soup. And while I'm ranting, why has my client suddenly borked into 132 column mode? <sigh> Ahem now, rant off/relevance on: Prediction: We may have to, in the coming years, for the above reasons and more, reduce the monthly FAQ posting to bi-weekly if the unsubscribe-to-(signal+noise) ratio increases significantly. Or a single-line howto unsubscribe message biweekly. Or something. Meh. de Gord [in a bad, bad, depressive mood due to huge IMAP restore issues out of my control] -- Sudo is prior art. Fools or thieves? You decide.

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:00 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:

for days now, i've been trying to remember a quotation, which i vaguely seem to remember popping up in trn/nn or some USENET newsreader of old, along the lines of:

"the telephone, once commonly available in cities, ...."

or something like that.

ring a bell for anyone?

I get the distinct feeling it's a quite from an obscure scifi novel/film or MST3K style quote, though I could be wrong. It does ring a distant bell, but I'm not so sure about on Usenet. Maybe it was a Gopher thing? This newfangled Googly-thing finds nothing - it'll never catch on. Anyone got some old Winchesters lying around that need a spin?