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Application Support for Unified ISSU

When an application supports unified ISSU, you can configure the application on the router and proceed with the unified in-service software upgrade with no adverse impact to the upgrade.

Applications that do not support unified ISSU cannot maintain state and configuration with minimal traffic loss across the upgrade. When you attempt the unified in-service software upgrade on a router that is configured with an ISSU-challenged application, the unified in-service software upgrade is halted and cannot proceed unless you remove the configuration. An application that does not support high availability cannot support unified ISSU.

Table 48 indicates which applications support or do not support a unified in-service software upgrade, as well as limitations on their behavior.

Table 48: Application Support for Unified In-Service Software Upgrades

Application

Supported

Unsupported

Notes

Physical Layer Protocols

DS1
(E120 and E320)

DS1
(ERX-1440)

 

DS3

HDLC

SONET/SDH

E120 and E320 routers do not support APS.

SONET/SDH VT

Link-Layer Protocols

ARP

ARP entries in the ARP cache do not time out because no ARP aging occurs during unified ISSU. When the unified ISSU is completed, the ARP cache contains the same entries as it had before the unified ISSU began.

ATM

ATM 1483 bulk configuration of dynamic interfaces

ATM bulk configuration of static interfaces

Bridged Ethernet

Cisco HDLC

Ethernet (with and without VLANs)

Frame Relay

 

PPP

PPPoE

Transparent bridging

Unicast Routing

Access Routes

BGP

FTP

IP

IPv6

Unified ISSU does not support IPv6.

IPSec Transport
(E120 and E320)

Not applicable

Not applicable

E120 and E320 routers do not support IPSec.

IPSec Transport
(ERX-1440)

 

IPSec Tunnels
(E120 and E320)

Not applicable

Not applicable

E120 and E320 routers do not support IPSec.

IPSec Tunnels
(ERX-1440)

 

IS-IS

Support only when graceful restart is configured.

OSPF

Support only when graceful restart is configured.

RIP

Static Routes

Telnet

Authentication and command authorizations on Telnet sessions fail during the upgrade phase and Telnet sessions are dropped.

IPv4 Multicast Routing

Multicast Routing

ANCP (L2C)

Unified ISSU can proceed if ANCP is configured. However, ANCP has no graceful restart extensions and therefore it cannot maintain its dynamic state across the upgrade. Consequently, all ANCP sessions are brought down and then restored when the upgrade is completed.

DVMRP
(E120 and E320)

DVMRP
(ERX-1440)

 

IGMP

PIM

IPv6 Multicast Routing

 

Multicast Routing

Unified ISSU does not support IPv6.

MLD

Unified ISSU does not support IPv6.

PIM

Unified ISSU does not support IPv6.

Multiprotocol Label Switching

MPLS

BGP signaling

LDP signaling

RSVP-TE signaling

Local cross-connects between layer 2 interfaces using MPLS

Policies and QoS

 

Policies

QoS

Remote Access

AAA

The following configuration is not supported: The subscriber username and password are on an ATM circuit in Bridged Ethernet over ATM or IP over ATM configurations.

DHCP External Server and Packet Trigger

DHCP Packet Capture

Configuration of DHCP packet capture does not prevent unified ISSU from proceeding. However, the capturing of packets on the line modules is halted when the unified ISSU upgrade phase commences. Packet capture resumes automatically during the unified ISSU service restoration phase.

DHCP Proxy Client

ü

DHCP Relay Proxy

DHCP relay proxy continues processing of DHCP release requests during the unified ISSU to maintain server-client synchronization. State is preserved across the upgrade; statistics are not preserved.

DHCP Relay Server

DHCPv4 Local Server

Forwarding outages that take place during a unified ISSU can affect DHCP lease renewal. Before you begin unified ISSU, we recommend that you configure the DHCP local server address pools with a minimum lease time of 120 minutes to ensure that leases do not expire during the upgrade.

DHCPv6 Local Server

Unified ISSU does not support IPv6.

L2TP

Unified ISSU forces an L2TP failover for all established tunnels. L2TP failover resynchronization is required for successful recovery of a tunnel and its sessions following the upgrade.

L2TP Dialout

Local Address Pools

Local Authentication Server

RADIUS Client

RADIUS Dynamic-Request Server

 

RADIUS Initiated Disconnect

RADIUS Relay Server

RADIUS Route-Download Server

SRC Client

Service Manager

Subscriber Manager

TACACS+

Miscellaneous

Bulk statistics

Denial of Service (DoS) protection

HTTP server

IOA hot swap

J-Flow (IP flow statistics)

Line Module Redundancy

When you issue the issu initialization command, line module redundancy is made inactive until the upgrade is completed.

If a line module in the redundancy group fails during this period of inactivity, unified ISSU holds that module down. The redundant line module cannot take over for the failed line module until the unified ISSU is completed.

The primary line modules in the redundancy group must be active for the unified ISSU to proceed. If instead the redundant module is active, validation fails and unified ISSU is halted. You must revert to the primary module in the redundancy group to proceed with the upgrade.

Mobile IP Home Agent

Network Address Translation (NAT)

You must remove the NAT license configuration as well as the NAT configuration from the router.

NTP

Resource Threshold Monitor

Response Time Reporter

Route Policy

SNMP

Subscriber Interfaces

Tunnels (GRE and DVMRP)

VRRP


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