Re: Fast Software Upgrade in 6500

From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 18:22:54 GMT-3


   That sounds about right. RPR is basically a cold standby sup that
has to fully reload the whole system. RPR+ is a slightly warm standby
and thus a little quicker. Hopefully they will implement SSO in the
sitch sups as has been done on the 7500 RSP's, this is a warm stnadby
and takes about 3 seconds!

   Dave

jfaure@sztele.com wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Anyone has tried the native IOS FSU feature in a 6500?.
>
> If I'm not wrong, when you have 2 supervisors and RPR+ configured in your
> Catalyst 6500 (this is my case) you can use this feature to upgrade the IOS
> version "without rebooting" the switch. I've tried it, by i'm seeing that i
> ever have a period of 48 seconds of outage (when i execute the "redundancy
> force-switchover" command).
>
> I though the RPR+ mode provided a better switchover time. Anyone can tell
> me if this is normal or maybe i haven't configured this redundancy mode
> properly? I'm using 12.1.13E5 and upgrading to 12.1.13E6. I have
> Supervisors IA with MSFC2 and PFC.
>
> Regards
>
> Juan Faure Ferrer
> email: jfaure@sztele.com
>
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David Madland
CCIE# 2016
Sr. Network Engineer
Qwest Communications
612-664-3367

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