On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:48:43PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, David Conrad wrote: > > >For a few more months. What are upgrade cycles like again? How common > >are the MSFC2s? > > I think we'll find out in a few months, when the "internet breaks" in a > whole bunch of places where the admins aren't aware of this issue or > operations have been downsized to the point that things are mostly on > auto-pilot. I'm guessing there are a good number of Sup2's in use, and > that a good % of them think they're fine...as they have 512MB RAM and on > the software based routers, that's plenty for current full BGP routes.
private replies suggest (w/ lots of handwaving) that perhaps 20-35% of the forwarding engines in use might fit this catagory. > Anyone want to bet there will be people posting to nanog and cisco-nsp in > a few months asking why either the CPU load on their Sup2's has suddenly > shot up or why they keep noticing parts of the internet have gone > unreachable?...oblivious to this thread. that would be a sucker bet > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route --bill