upgrade from universal to universalk9 ios - license issues

[mg823r001]

Hello,

We tried to do ios upgrade from c3750e-universal-mz.122-35.SE5 to latest c3750e-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE11 but we faced following issue.

We are using vrf on that 3750 switch which is working fine with version 12.2(35). Once I did upgrade to 12.2(55), vrf feature stopped working.

when I do sh license:

Switch#sh license all
Load for five secs: 8%/0%; one minute: 9%; five minutes: 8%
Time source is NTP, 14:59:08.770 UTC Tue Oct 25 2016
License Storage: lic0:/lservrc.pri
StoreIndex: 0   Feature: ipbase                             Version: 1.0
        License Type: Permanent
        License State: Active, In Use
        Lock type: Node locked
        Vendor info <PID>WS-C3750E-48TD-S</PID><SN>FDO1409R0KE</SN>
        License Addition: Exclusive
        License Generation version 135266304
        License Precedence: 0


Switch#

I can see that we have only ipbase license. I found out that for vrf we should have ipservices.

The question is how it can work with 12.2(35) ios ? I know that it's very old, so did some features (like vrf) changed license?

Do we have to download/buy ipservices license to get vrf working?

Thanks for any comment :)

[Palani Mohan · Accepted solution]

Hi there

While running 12.2(35)SE/ipBase combo, when you attempted to configure, you likely saw the following:

switch1(config)#ip vrf test
% VRF-Lite is not supported in the IP Base feature set and will be removed in future releases, please refer to www.cisco.com for the feature sets that support this feature

I guess you ignored:-) but then, Cisco changed behavior in newer releases and enforced this.

This is also documented here

Please go back and check your sales order. If you purchased ipServices lic, proceed to configure the switch with

switch(config)#license boot level ipservices ?
  switch  Switch license information
  <cr>

If not, please work with your local partner and Account Team and purchase the ipservices lic.

Kind regards ... Palani

[mg823r001]

I didn't configure that switch, but probably person who did ignored it :)

Thank you very much for clarification!