Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Mar/19 23:12, Gert Doering wrote: > So? Just as with FreeBSD (if you've used it before), you can upgrade to 11 if you are coming from 9.3 and any official version of 10. For anything earlier than that, you'd need to upgrade to 10 first. You can upgrade to 10 if you are coming from any

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Mar/19 16:56, Pierre Emeriaud wrote: > > As others said, direct upgrade is somewhat unsupported and quite bold. > > We're currently upgrading mx480s from 13.3R5 to 17.2R2 with an > intermediate step on 15.1F5. As those are LNSes we have to activate > tomcat (`services

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Ola Thoresen
My point is only that they made a _lot_ of changes to the underlaying systems between 12/13/14 and 15 (as far as I understand it 15 is basically forked from 12, so changes done in 13 and 14 are not necessarily in 15).  But they still changed a lot, especially the whole change from running as a

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Aaron Gould
Lately, we have been upgrading lots of our ACX5048's from 15.1X54 (D51 and D61) to 17.3R3.10 -Aaron ___ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:17:44PM -0700, Eldon Koyle wrote: >> Many (most?) network operating systems are an image file that the >> switch either writes over a partition (ie. block-level copy) or boots >> directly (ie. initrd/initramfs) with a separate partition for a config >> file.

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:17:44PM -0700, Eldon Koyle wrote: > Many (most?) network operating systems are an image file that the > switch either writes over a partition (ie. block-level copy) or boots > directly (ie. initrd/initramfs) with a separate partition for a config > file. Junos is a

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Eldon Koyle
Many (most?) network operating systems are an image file that the switch either writes over a partition (ie. block-level copy) or boots directly (ie. initrd/initramfs) with a separate partition for a config file. Junos is a full BSD operating system that installs packages to partitions on the

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:38:16AM +0100, "Rolf Hanßen" wrote: > usually they say not more than 2 major releases in one step (i.e. 13 -> 15 > -> 17). So why is that? Genuinely curious, as I do not have much JunOS upgrade experience - and my Cisco IOS experience so far has been "you can go

Re: [j-nsp] Hyper Mode on MX

2019-03-08 Thread Saku Ytti
Hey Michael, > I have used successfully used hyper mode on MPC4E in M2K for a few years with > little regrets. I chose to do this as I didn't have the equipment to do > line rate testing and I do a significant amount of counters on untrusted > ports. As others have suggested, you need to

Re: [j-nsp] Hyper Mode on MX

2019-03-08 Thread Michael Hare via juniper-nsp
Franz- I have used successfully used hyper mode on MPC4E in M2K for a few years with little regrets. I chose to do this as I didn't have the equipment to do line rate testing and I do a significant amount of counters on untrusted ports. As others have suggested, you need to know feature

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Pierre Emeriaud
Le ven. 8 mars 2019 à 10:26, Robert Hass a écrit : > > Hi > Can I do direct upgrade of JunOS 13.2S to 17.4S ? > Platform is MX80 > Or should I go step by step: i.e: > 13.2 -> 14.1 > 14.1 -> 15.1 > 15.1 -> 16.1 > 16.1 -> 17.1 > 17.1 -> 17.4 As others said, direct upgrade is somewhat unsupported

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Niall Donaghy
I can only offer that if you want to go 13.x direct to 17.x: - you ought to do a lab test as this is not officially endorsed. - I know downgrading from 17.x to 15.1 has been problematic in our lab, requiring USB stick recovery. - I know that upgrading from 15.1 to 17.4 is fine. Avoiding lab

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Ola Thoresen
Not that I am in any way authoritative... And I think  Juniper has official guidelines, but these might be a bit conservative. Depending on your config and feature sets. But I would at least suggest doing a few steps. 13.2 to 15.1 should be ok - skipping 14. 15.1 to 17.1 (and probably even

Re: [j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Rolf Hanßen
Hi, usually they say not more than 2 major releases in one step (i.e. 13 -> 15 -> 17). kind regards Rolf > Hi > Can I do direct upgrade of JunOS 13.2S to 17.4S ? > Platform is MX80 > Or should I go step by step: i.e: > 13.2 -> 14.1 > 14.1 -> 15.1 > 15.1 -> 16.1 > 16.1 -> 17.1 > 17.1 -> 17.4 > >

[j-nsp] Old JunOS upgrade path

2019-03-08 Thread Robert Hass
Hi Can I do direct upgrade of JunOS 13.2S to 17.4S ? Platform is MX80 Or should I go step by step: i.e: 13.2 -> 14.1 14.1 -> 15.1 15.1 -> 16.1 16.1 -> 17.1 17.1 -> 17.4 Rob ___ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net