This is an interesting point, and one worth discussing a bit further.
I can still recall an interview during the course of which the interviewer
questioned my qualification in part because my experience was with IOS 11.2.
He stated that they used IOS 12.0 ( newly released at the time. ) I asked
why, and he said "because we need the new features" I had the temerity to
ask which ones. There was no answer. The interview went down hill from
there.
Some folks are upgrade freaks. My own opinion is that in a heavy duty
production environment the only reason should upgrade is if the upgrade
fixes an identifiable problem. These days, the latest IOS is not necessarily
the best IOS.
Chuck
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> ya know, I am a fan of if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but dude....Do you
Me too. and if I never have to mess with the routers because they're doing
their job, then why upgrade or futz with them, especially a core router? I
love to tinker just like everyone else, but the great thing about a
production network is that if everything IS running, then I can let it be
and work on some of the other stuff that's important (like my lab studies
;-) If I don't need no new features, then I don't upgrade until I do.
I once had a boss who had to have THE LATEST version of code on our network
and would make us schedule IOS upgrades regularly, even when we complained
that there was no value-add to the upgrade. I guess that's the OTHER
extreme...and then we'd have a relatively short amount of time to configure
the 'new features' of the code into our network (I really learned to hate
frame-relay traffic shaping).
> never want the fixes and features of newer code? Just curious...
Especialy
> with Cisco NAT in it's infant stages...
>
> -Patrick
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