[afnog] SOLVED: Cisco 7204 VXR crashing and goes into reboot loop

[Shepherd Magumo]

Hi All,

I secured a replacement NPE300 and all is well again with the router.

Thanks for the assistance. Enjoy your day!!

Shepherd

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>wrote:

> On Thursday 10 June 2010 06:15:17 pm Shepherd Magumo wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the help, specifically Mark, Philip, Oluwaseun
> >  and Bope.
>
> Shepherd, glad to you hear you solved your problem.
>
> Your testing sounds reasonably exhaustive per your
> circumstances. Would suggest replacing your NPE-300 with one
> that isn't defective if you have a chance. Note that this
> board is now EoL/EoS, and as such, you can't buy it new from
> Cisco. You can only get it on the refurbished market.
>
> The NPE-400 or later are still current, in case you require
> Cisco support in the future.
>
> Also note that the last supported "current" release of IOS
> for this platform (NPE-300) is 12.3(3)i - used to be
> 12.3(10)b, but that has since been deferred. That said, I've
> run later code without problems, up to 12.3(22), I think,
> although I'd recommend treading carefully if you need to run
> something more current.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
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