Having recently done this (and moved to IOS15 at the same time), I encourage you to find a spare chassis somewhere and hot-stage the config. Then when you go to make the upgrade it's just a matter of swapping the NPEs and pulling out the old IO controller and you're done.
-r "Joseph Mays" <m...@win.net> writes: > I have a cisco 7206 VXR with NPE-400 running c7200-ik9su2-mz.123-23.bin. I > have an NPE-G1 card now that I would like to put in the router instead. Can I > just swap the NPE-400 for the G1 card and expect it to work? Iâm attaching > the show ver on the NPE-400 system showing the bootloader, IOS, etc. > > core-gw1.noc#show ver > Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software > IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-IK9SU2-M), Version 12.3(23), RELEASE SOFTWARE > (fc5) > Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport > Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by cisco Systems, Inc. > Compiled Tue 24-Jul-07 21:42 by stshen > Image text-base: 0x60008AF4, data-base: 0x61F61720 > > ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) > BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-BOOT-M), Version 12.0(24)S, EARLY DEPLOYMENT > RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) > > core-gw1.noc uptime is 1 year, 14 weeks, 6 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes > System returned to ROM by power-on > System restarted at 16:57:27 EDT Tue May 21 2013 > System image file is "disk0:c7200-ik9su2-mz.123-23.bin" > > > This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United > States and local country laws governing import, export, transfer and > use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply > third-party authority to import, export, distribute or use encryption. > Importers, exporters, distributors and users are responsible for > compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product you > agree to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If you are unable > to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately. > > A summary of U.S. laws governing Cisco cryptographic products may be found at: > http://www.cisco.com/wwl/export/crypto/tool/stqrg.html > > If you require further assistance please contact us by sending email to > exp...@cisco.com. > > cisco 7206VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 491520K/32768K bytes of > memory. > Processor board ID 20399590 > R7000 CPU at 350MHz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.3, 256KB L2 Cache > 6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0 > > Last reset from power-on > Bridging software. > X.25 software, Version 3.0.0. > > PCI bus mb0_mb1 (Slots 0, 1, 3 and 5) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points. > Current configuration on bus mb0_mb1 has a total of 800 bandwidth points. > The set of PA-2FE, PA-POS-2OC3, and I/O-2FE qualify for "half > bandwidth points" consideration, when full bandwidth point counting > results in oversubscription, under the condition that only one of the > two ports is used. With this adjustment, current configuration on bus > mb0_mb1 has a total of 800 bandwidth points. > This configuration has oversubscripted the PCI bus and is not a > supported configuration. > > PCI bus mb2 (Slots 2, 4, 6) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points. > Current configuration on bus mb2 has a total of 380 bandwidth points > This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported. > > Please refer to the following document "Cisco 7200 Series Port Adaptor > Hardware Configuration Guidelines" on Cisco.com <http://www.cisco.com> > for c7200 bandwidth points oversubscription and usage guidelines. > > WARNING: PCI bus mb0_mb1 Exceeds 600 bandwidth points > > 3 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) > 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) > 2 Serial network interface(s) > 125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory. > > 46976K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 512 bytes). > 4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K). > Configuration register is 0x102 > > core-gw1.noc# > _______________________________________________ > 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/