Cisco Service Provider code - Any good?

All,

  It was requested that I post this email to the Nanog list as the person
in question does not have posting ability... :slight_smile:

Hello All,

We're currently looking into migrating our Cisco 72xx and 75xx routers
to Service Provider IOS and I was wondering if anyone has had any good
luck with a certain version? We've seen that 12.0(25)S1 seems to be an
ok version but I have also heard some gripes about it. The PAs that we
run in most of the units are the following:

ATM-OC3-MM
ATM-OC12-MM
FastE
GigE

The IOS would also have to support RFC-1483 connections (Preferrably
RBE), BGP, IS-IS and any other basic services of the such.

Thanks in advance…

Jason Frisvold wrote:

[...]

We're currently looking into migrating our Cisco 72xx and 75xx routers
to Service Provider IOS [...]

The IOS would also have to support RFC-1483 connections (Preferrably
RBE), BGP, IS-IS and any other basic services of the such.

  Looks like bridging (IRB and RBE) is spanky new to the S feature sets
-- 12.2-14S range, so a 12.0-S load doesn't sound like it'll do the job
for you.

Peter E. Fry

"Peter E. Fry" wrote:

  Looks like bridging (IRB and RBE) is spanky new to the S feature sets
-- 12.2-14S range, so a 12.0-S load doesn't sound like it'll do the job
for you.

  Ooops... RBE is available for the 7500 and IRB for the 7200 in the
late 12.0-S loads, apparently. Well, that's new and unusual. Bridging
was unavailable on the 7500 in earlier 12.0-S versions, and I made the
mistake of searching initially for both features at once.

Peter E. Fry