Upgrade 'em all to EY1 before you do anything :)

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On 2011-03-30, at 8:32 AM, "Leigh Harrison" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I've had a dozen ME3600X's turn up today.  I'll let you know how we get on 
> with them :-)
> 
> LH
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Waris Sagheer (waris)
> Sent: 30 March 2011 08:16
> To: [email protected]; Jason Lixfeld; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
> 
> 3400E procedure should work in case of ME3600X.
> 
> Jason,
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> -EVC IRB will fix this issue in the next release coming out in June 2011. 
> This limitation at FCS is applicable only if you are planning to use EFP with 
> SVI. For L2 only, you can add more than one ports to a single bridge-domain.
> -I assume the second issue is fixed with the EY1 image?
> -What was the SR number for the corrupted IOS? I would like to understand why 
> RMA was the only option.
> -Do you have the SR number for the NMS issue? Do you still the problem with 
> EY1 image? I'll get the engineering look into this issue.
> 
> -Waris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Salonia
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:03 PM
> To: Jason Lixfeld; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
> 
> Forgive me, I don't have any experience with these switches, just ME3400 
> series... Is there really no way to fix a corrupt IOS? Can you not simply 
> interrupt the boot process, drop to ROMMON format flash and tftpdnld the 
> image again?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lixfeld <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:55:58
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
> 
> We've deployed about 20 of these so far, and for a first release, they are 
> solid.  They have taken some of the flexible Ethernet service features from 
> the 7600 ES series line cards and put a distilled feature set onto these 
> boxes.  Makes life so much easier.
> 
> - The biggest issue we've had with the FCS code is that you can't have more 
> than one port be a member of one bridge domain.  This will be fixed in FCS+1 
> which, I believe, is due any second now.
> - We also ran into a weird BGP issue on 12.2(52)EY where prefixes sourced on 
> the ME weren't being announced via the update-group and the correct extended 
> communities weren't being applied.  This has only happened to us once on a 
> box that we forgot to upgrade to EY1.
> - There is no way to fix a corrupted IOS.  The restore procedure hasn't been 
> published internally at Cisco yet (at least not that my TAC engineer could 
> find) so if you brick the box, you have no choice but to get it RMAd for the 
> time being.
> - Make sure your NMS doesn't poll .1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.1.  You'll crash the 
> box, immediately :)
> 
> Other than that, I can't think of anything irksome.
> 
> We went through the vendor gambit on these before we bought them.  Cisco, 
> Juniper, MRV, Alcatel, I'm sure there were a few others that I'm forgetting.  
> The only real competition after the dust settled was Juniper and we opted out 
> of that mainly because the boxes have a ridiculously deep footprint and as 
> much as I love JunOS, their stuff just requires too damn much work to get 
> going.  Create a CCC, create bi-directional LSPs, map the LSP to the CCC, map 
> the CCC to the interface, blah, blah, blah.  Cisco's solution is 1 line of 
> three 3 commands per interface:  xconnect <destination_loopback> <vcid>.  
> Done.  Everything else is done under the hood.  Easy botton?  #winning.  
> There's no need for things to be as complex as J tends to make them.  There 
> is certainly a time and a place for that many knobs, but not on the edge.  No 
> way.   Also, I've heard no end of hassles from a bunch of folks who run these 
> boxes.
> 
> On 2011-03-28, at 5:17 PM, Leigh Harrison wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the feedback, and yeah, I agree that a lack of IPv6 support is 
>> slack.  We're seeing a keen interest from various customers at the moment.
>> 
>> Has anyone got any happy stories about the ME3600X?!??
>> 
>> LH
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>> [email protected]
>> Sent: 28 March 2011 22:00
>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
>> 
>> Back in November when I questioned our Cisco account rep while I was 
>> purchasing a half dozen of these, I was told ~summer of '11 for IPv6 
>> on the ME3600X... I'm sure that's been pushed back based on newer 
>> feedback it seems people are getting. This is most unfortunate. I 
>> don't understand how Cisco can ignore IPv6 on newer products like 
>> this. It is indeed totally unacceptable and does make these L2 only 
>> having to rely on something else to do IPv6 in L3 the access layer. :(
>> 
>> -Vinny
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Asbjorn 
>> Hojmark - Lists
>> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 3:36 PM
>> To: 'Jon Harald Bøvre'
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
>> 
>>> IPv6 supported? No. Probably coming in october this year.
>> 
>> Last I heard was 'sometime 2012' for IPv6 support -- Totally unacceptable 
>> for any device doing L3 in SP environments, IMO -- so I consider it a 
>> L2-only box. 
>> 
>> -A
>> 
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