Thanks for verifying my suspicions... ISSU just seemed 'too good to be true'. RPR mode upgrade it is...
-- Randy ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Phil Mayers <[email protected]> To: N/A Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:06:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ISSU on SXF -> SXI > On 12/02/10 14:47, Rob Shakir wrote: > > > > This seems quite accurate to me. > > > > Our experience of ISSU has been terrible. We've found multiple bugs > > related to it, and have found that -- in general -- we're much better > > off in terms of service disruption with a "classic" upgrade (upgrade > > secondary, reload peer, force failover, etc). > > > > Cisco advised us that it is unlikely that ISSU on 7600/6500 will meet > > our requirements, and hence we are better off doing classic upgrades. > > We've taken their advice, and will not be trying it again. I think > > As it happens I just did a "half-test" on one of our boxes where I > did the "issu loadversion" so that I could see what it told me about > outage times - and all kinds of horrific messages started spraying > onto the console about missing ifindex values, IDB failures and so forth. > > I quickly did an "issu abortversion" > > Bah. Thanks a lot Cisco... > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
