Re: [c-nsp] "next-table" Equivalent for IOS XR - Default Route into Global Routing Table

2023-09-02 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
As you found out, XR won't forward the traffic using inter-VRF route leaking if it has to do another recursive lookup in the next VRF. It requires specifying the next-hop/interface or leaking the more specific routes into the VRF. So if you have 0/0 pointing to null0 that's not going to work.

Re: [c-nsp] NCS IOS-XR rant (was:Re: Internet border router recommendations and experiences)

2023-03-01 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
I agree, I mentioned earlier most just want a single image where they load the image, reboot the box if that’s required, and that’s it. Managing application level software patches isn’t something most want to keep track of or maintain. Whle the flexibility is there to do that, it’s not

Re: [c-nsp] NCS IOS-XR rant (was:Re: Internet border router recommendations and experiences)

2023-02-28 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
With XR7 the idea was to mimic how things are done with Linux repos by having a specific RPM repo for the routers and the patches which is managed similar to Linux and that’s how all software is packaged now. Dependencies are resolved automatically, etc. RPMs are installed as atomic

Re: [c-nsp] NCS IOS-XR rant (was:Re: Internet border router recommendations and experiences)

2023-02-28 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
Yes there are some various differences depending on what versions you are using. You can, at least in later versions use install replace with http, at least with GISO. You also do not need the apply command, and you can include “commit” in the replace command so it’s not required after the

Re: [c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

2023-02-26 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
The newer software is packaged that way already, if you don’t need SMUs. If you want to customize it with SMUs and whatnot it takes a few minutes, depends on your processor and storage speed of course. Thanks, Phil On 2/26/23, 11:18 AM, "Gert Doering" wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at

Re: [c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

2023-02-26 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
SMUs were a good idea, but not really great in practice. Most customers I work with do not want to manage application level patches, just entire images, even in cases where they are just a process restart. XR for a number of years now has had the concept of a “golden ISO”. It’s a single

Re: [c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

2023-02-26 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
Ok well there are a number those as well. The 55A2 and newer 57C3 also support a number of 100G ports. I quite don’t fully understand the “verbose architecture” comment. I’ve used a lot of router operating systems, Junos since 1999, SROS, XR, XE, you name it, and there isn’t a whole lot of

Re: [c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

2023-02-23 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
The original question was around an Internet border router with 10G support. We have devices like the 55A2-MOD-SE which is similar to some other vendor devices (somewhat of a reference Broadcom design) which we’ve seen be very popular in border router deployments where you do not need a ton

Re: [c-nsp] 32 x 100G box

2023-01-26 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
As Tom mentioned, There are a number of platforms. There is the somewhat older J+ NCS nodes like the 55A1-36H which is 36x100GE QSFP28. There is the 8000 series which has a number of models that would fit like the 8201-32FH and newer 8201-24H8FH (24x100G, 8x400G). There is also a new NCS

Re: [c-nsp] Best Practices for Transporting Layer-2 Services

2023-01-19 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
Others mentioned EVPN for ELAN/VPLS type services, but it’s not just for multipoint services. EVPN-VPWS is how we see most who do not have an existing Martini T-LDP deploying P2P L2VPN. P2P is going to be transparent to most of what the customer or 3rd party provider is sending. If they

Re: [c-nsp] Large prefix lists/sets on IOS-XR

2022-12-10 Thread Phil Bedard via cisco-nsp
Hi, Not much different than Junos. Everything in the XR config can be configured using Netconf using either native models or OpenConfig. You can check out https://github.com/YangModels/yang/tree/main/vendor/cisco/xr for supported models by version. Any other questions just let me know.