[187898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco ASR9010 vs Juniper MX960
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Sun Feb 28 04:16:38 2016
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To: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>, Jason Bothe <jason@rice.edu>
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.