I'm finding this to be a fascinating thread as I am currently in the process of evaluating some M7i's vs. some ASR1002's. Seems the Jun's have settled into a less reflexive release schedule then the ASRs currently. At some point I'm sure the ASR's release schedule will settle into a trend more like that of the SXI on the 6.5k or the SRx on the 7.6k.
I too, will need BGP Netflow Traffic profiling/NBAR uRPF micro packet bursts etc., and hoping to keep it in all in hardware. This may be better suited for the Cisco-nsp list, but I am interested, as I'm sure is the OP, in more opinions of stable releases/trains. Maybe a question better suited for the cisco-nsp list. thanks all -b On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:08 PM, McDonald Richards < mcdonald.richa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd recommend 2.4.x (XNDx) unless you REALLY need the BGP PIC features in > 2.5. 2.4 was the first release to support L2VPNs and should be mature > enough > in it's general support of MPLS/VRFs. 2.5 is still VERY new and was only > released publicly in December. > > 2.4.2 still has a few bugs but for the features you've listed above, should > be stable enough. After running it since it's release (2.3.2 previously) > I've not seen a software crash on any of our ASR1Ks. I run a mix of RP1 and > RP2 devices and since this an ASR1002 you'll be after the RP1 code. > > McDonald > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> > wrote: > > > I would run at least the 2.5 software (XNE). > > > > You don't mention if you have RP1 or RP2, if you're doing sw redundancy > or > > hw redundancy or both, etc.. This will also have an impact. > > > > I've seen some 'odd' issues with BGP on the ASR1k, so you really do want > to > > track the latest code. It's also recommended to keep a close eye on your > > memory utilization and if/when any cores show up on the harddisk(s). > > > > - Jared > > > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote: > > > > > Anyone have recommendations on solid IOS XE code for ASR 1002 that's > just > > > doing: > > > > > > - BGP > > > - VRF's > > > - Many sub-interfaces and ACL's > > > > > > It shipped with 02.04.02.122-33.XND2.bin > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Kenny > > > > > > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer