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Re: Cisco ASR9010 vs Juniper MX960

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Sun Feb 28 04:16:38 2016

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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:13:02 +0200
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On 18/Feb/16 15:59, Josh Reynolds wrote:

> With GRES, can't you simply set the master RE as backup, apply firmware,
> then switch back to master and upgrade the backup RE?

Not always.

Multicast, for example, tends to not survive upgrades in GRES conditions
as a matter of protocol.

Mark.

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