Peter, I understand the hesitation. I wont hold anyone accountable. We generally max out memory when we purchase devices so the XMs are stacked. I cannot find a lot of definitive answers online so I figured I would ping the community in hopes to find caveats like the OuDiscards not working. Thank you very much for you time I can definitely build off of this.
Regards, //LeBlanc On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Peter Rathlev wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 23:11 -0700, Jason LeBlanc wrote: >> Cisco only does safe harbor on a few select devices. Being as how >> this group is made up of a lot of service providers and enterprise >> networks, does anyone know the latest stable version of code for any >> or all of the following: >> >> 2651XM >> WS-C3550-24-PWR >> WS-C3560-24PS-S >> Catalyst 3560-48TS > > I think the reason people are unwilling to give any advice on this (also > cf. your later questions) might be because the question is hard to > answer precisely for even low grades of precision. > > For the 2651XM you have a huge lot of possibilities for different > versions (depending on amount of RAM), and which one suits your needs > would vary with what features you want to use. Without any information > regarding the latter your question is incomplete. > > We have been using 12.2(40) mainline with several 2600s with no problems > for a long time, though not with XM models. They're primarily 2610s used > as RTR queriers and responders, and the a few devices for DLSw+ > termination. > > Regarding the L3 switches: I was once told an expert I respect a lot > (non Cisco employee) to generally use the newest supported version and > hope for the best. We currently use (as the customer) a few hundreds of > 3560s running 12.2(35)SE5 IP Services as multi VRF-Lite CPE devices in > "branch offices". The only bug that has bitten us so far is that > interface counters don't show drops (e.g. OutDiscards). > > We use lots of 3560s currently running 12.2(50)SE1 and SE3 IP Base and > only doing L2. No problems so far. (And OutDiscard counters work.) > > We also have a handful of 3550s running 12.2(50)SE3 IP Base; this is not > supported, but we haven't had any problems so far. We replace them with > 3560s on occasion. (The 3550 was IMHO a better platform though.) > > Remember that if you are using the 3550s for anything critical you > really should use a supported release. > > -- > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
