[AusNOG] Experimental Cisco IOS in production

[Mark Andrews]

Experimental covers everything from "we added a extra log message"
to "we re-wrote 99% of the code".

There is no good way to measure risk of experimental builds without
asking "what has been done" and even then you need to compare the
risk of deploying with the risk of staying with the current code.

Mark

In message <CDB7DBE3.57D16%macca at vocus.com.au>, McDonald Richards writes:
>
> Huge risk! The only time I've ever considered this type of thing is when
> it's a custom build with a specific bug-fix on a known stable IOS version.
>
> Macca
>
>
> From: Goran Aleksic
> <goran.aleksic at gmail.com<mailto:goran.aleksic at gmail.com>>
> Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:14 PM
> To: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>"
> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>>
> Subject: [AusNOG] Experimental Cisco IOS in production
>
> I wonder if anyone had any experience with experimental IOS version on
> production device and if that can be considered as a risk?

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