On 23/Apr/18 11:20, Saku Ytti wrote:
> The SMU is fallacy in my opinion, the SMUs are marketed as spot fixes > to specific DDTS, while they really are just shipping newer version > for set of binaries. So you get into this confusing state where to > install DDTSx you must uninstall DDDTSy and install DDTSz. It would be > far easier if they didn't have so much marketing pixie dust, if they > didn't call SMUs DDTS, but just call SMUs by the version of binaries > you ship, and say DDTS requires BGP 4.2 and RIB 2.2 or newer, then no > one would find it confusing you don't need older versions of BGP and > RIB installed and that anything 4.1 BGP fixes, 4.2 BGP fixes. > But even if they do fix this communication problem, the whole SMU is > almost always useless complexity for vendor, as for us router is > mostly BGP control plane, if update flaps BGP there is no upsize to > reload for us. It would be so much simpler to engineer router which > boots in 30seconds and supports 0 patching, than to do this. I would > prefer the former. Obviously the best solution would be router where I > can update everything without reloading or flapping anything in > control-plane, (why can I do that in my irssi, but not in my IOS-XR > BGP?) but I can't see that happening any time soon, and I'm not going > to pay vendor premium to make it happen, I'm good restarting router > 2-4 times a year, as long as the update process doesn't take 3-4 > hours. Seems to only be getting worse, with later versions of IOS XR. Mark. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp