Patching and install are deprecated as of SXI3. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2sx/12_2sxi/12_2_33_sxi3_newfeatlist.html
As for a formal announcement about the future of ION; as far as I know Cisco has not made any. However, someone closer to the horse's mouth may be willing to comment in more detail. -Ben On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Abello, Vinny wrote: > Hi all, > > > > So, I've been reading many posts, Cisco documentation and release notes and > testing various versions of 12.2(33)SXH and SXI in a lab environment. Based > on all the Cisco marketing fluff, modular IOS seems like the way to go for > reliability. Real world experience from many smart people on this list seem > to have the opposite opinion. I've read things indicating that the platform > is going to be going all modular in the future (and one thing that said the > opposite??). I'm further very confused by Cisco dropping the install command > from SXI3 onward so there is no more patching which was one of the > advantages to using it. I still like the idea of the protected memory and > modern microkernel, but not if the platform is still buggy. Safe Harbor > releases of modular seem to be mostly parallel with Safe Harbor releases of > monolithic IOS. I also noted a few minor features that would be "nice" to > have that are only in monolithic, but not in modular according to feature > navigator. I can certainly live without them though, especially if the > platform is more robust and stable, but I can't seem to decide if that's > truly the case. I can think of a small handful of scenarios in my experience > in the last 10 years where being able to restart a process in IOS may have > been helpful, but it's very few and far between. > > > > I think this question seems to come up quite a bit and was discussed a > little recently. So my question is this: Is anyone using modular IOS in > production with stellar results where they have not regretted doing so? > Also, is Cisco really moving to a pure modular offering on the 6500 platform > in the future? > > > > Thanks for any input and insight into the matter. > > > > > > -Vinny > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/