Cisco 7507 with RPR+

[jrichv]

I have a 7507 with dual RSP4+ processors, and need to use two features at the same time - route-map for policy based NAT, and RPR+ for redundancy and failover.

TAC says for route-map, I need 12.2 or 12.3 mainline. Neither of these support RPR+. For RPR+, I need some offshoots of 12.2 - but they don't have route-map features.

Surely I'm not the first person to need both features in the same IOS? Has anyone hit this brick wall before, and if so, how did you get around it?

TAC says RPR+ will NOT be incorporated in 12.3 mainline, and has no answer for me regarding an IOS that will do both route-map and RPR+ for me.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
jrichv

 

[jrichv]

Ok, since I received a total of ZERO replies to that post - let me pose another question to the masses: For those of you who have 7500 series routers with dual RSP cards - what type of failover/redundancy do YOU run on your router?

thanks,
jrichv

 

[Routerboy]

We run 12.0 (23) S2 on some 10000s with RPR Plus:

Router#sh ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 10000 Software (C10K-P10-M), Version 12.0(23)S2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
TAC Support:

http://www.cisco.com/tac

Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 12-Feb-03 15:43 by nmasa
Image text-base: 0x600109B0, data-base: 0x61600000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(9r)SL2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
BOOTLDR: 10000 Software (C10K-P10-M), Version 12.0(23)S2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Router uptime is 16 weeks, 23 hours, 33 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload at 09:26:16 EDT Fri Oct 3 2003
System restarted at 09:28:37 EDT Fri Oct 3 2003
System image file is "disk0:c10k-p10-mz.120-23.S2.bin"

cisco C10008 (PRE1-RP) processor with 458751K/65536K bytes of memory.
R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
Backplane version 1.0, 8 slot

Last reset from register reset
Toaster processor tmc0 is running.
Toaster processor tmc1 is running.
1 six-port OC3 POS controller (6 POS)
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
17 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
3 GigabitEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
4 ATM network interface(s)
6 Packet over SONET network interface(s)
6 Channelized T3 port(s)
509K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

47040K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 512 bytes).
32768K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256KB).
Standby is up
Standby has 524288K bytes of memory.

Configuration register is 0x102

Router#sh redun
Router#sh redundancy
PRE A (This PRE) : Active
PRE B : Standby

Operating mode : RPR Plus
Uptime since this PRE became active from reload : 16 weeks, 23 hours, 47 minutes
Standby failures since this PRE active : 0
The standby PRE has been up for : 16 weeks, 23 hours, 45 minutes

Standby PRE information....
Standby is up.
Standby has 524288K bytes of memory.
Standby BOOT variable = disk0:c10k-p10-mz.120-23.S2.bin,1;
Standby CONFIG_FILE variable =
Standby BOOTLDR variable =
Standby Configuration register is 0x102

Standby version:
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 10000 Software (C10K-P10-M), Version 12.0(23)S2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
TAC Support:

http://www.cisco.com/tac

Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 12-Feb-03 15:43 by nmasa
Active version:
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 10000 Software (C10K-P10-M), Version 12.0(23)S2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
TAC Support:

http://www.cisco.com/tac

Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 12-Feb-03 15:43 by nmasa
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