MPLS on 7206vxr

[NAVIN PARWAL]

Folks,

We are thinking of building an enterpise MPLS backbone consisting of about 30 7206 Vxr routers. This deployement would have basic MPLS L3 capabilities, Vrf -Multicast aware, and support customer QOS.

My question is what code should we be running. Should we be running 12.0 code or 12.4 code based on the features. I see some providers are running 12.0(22)s code. Is there any advantage of running 12.4 if yes what version?

[a-vazquez]

The IOS versions 12.2(4)T1 will allow the user to independently test the LDP and the L3 interoperability. This test is used for interoperability of LDP and MBGP for route distribution.

[romccallum]

from plenty experience with 7206's and MVRF etc i would 100% advise you to run 12.2(25)S9 SSH variant also as I prefer SSH to telnet (its moe secure).