Re: So, 11.3 anyone?

["Alex P. Rudnev" <alex () Relcom EU net>]

> Anyone aware of any bugs in 11.2(12)P that would effect:
>
> NPE-200
> HSSI NPM
> 4Port Serial NPM
> 4Port Ethernet NPM
> 8Port Ethernet NPM
> 1Port FastEthernet NPM
> I/O controller with integrated MII running as FastEthernet0/0
> BGP4
> OSPF
> Flat static routes
>
> I know what the CCO says, but I'm wondering if anyone has any real-life
> experience.
Interesting, did they says about ISL DO NOT WORK AT INTEGRATED FAST 
ETHERNET or not?  Really it do not work in 11.2(11)P and they promise to 
fix it in 11.2(13)P.


> On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> :
> :Hrm. We turned on polcy-routing on a 4700 that was running at abour 40%
> :CPU. We turned on policy-routing for one interface (a v.35 that was doing
> :abour 1.2 mb/s) and it jumped up to 60%. I turned it on for a moment on a
> :HSSI interface that was doing about 3.5 mb/s, and it pegged the machine at
> :99%.
> :
> :
> :On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Christian Kratzer wrote:
> :> > So, a potential reason came up for me to possibly run 11.3. I really don't
> :> > want to, but I am comtemplating it.
> :> > 
> :> > Apparently, 11.3 has code to fast-switch policy-routed networks. Does it
> :> > work? Is 11.3 really usable? I am scared to death, but may need this for a
> :> > certain application.
> :> 
> :> we are running policy routing on our 3640 and 7206 machines and we quite fine 
> :> without fast switched policy routing.  I would only think of using it if 
> :> the cpu overhead starts getting unconformatably high.  
> :> 
> :> At the moment we are running 112-11.P without any major tilts.
> :
> :If I were you, I'd run 11.1.17(CA) or better on the 7206. We ran into some
> :general wierdness with 11.2.11P.
> :
> :
>
> --
> Regards,  
>
> Jason A. Lixfeld             jlixfeld () idirect ca
> System Administrator [L5]    jlixfeld () torontointernetxchange net
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