Hi ,
We are currently upgrading from MX 18.107 to MX 18.211.3. Upgrade date is sept 26th and devices are MX68CW.
After upgrading 500 networks I noticed a general trend. Device utilization is going up in 80% of our networks.
Some are more obvious :
Anyone else encountered this ? I was expecting a better device utilization not worse 😐
Not related to this issue, but I noticed my test units kept dropping the WAN connection every 24/36 hours. After a downgrade everything has cleared up.
Yes, I saw this and 19.1 seems better, so I have been running that where I can 'risk' a beta.
oof... I hope I won't encounter major issues. I don't wanna halt my deployement because of that.
I have seen similar problems and it is surprising that cmr found 19.1 to be better. If you’re okay with getting into beta testing, you might want to give that version a shot.
Little update : This increase of device utilization seems to be caused by the IDS/IPS module. We are running in IDS Security mode.
More to come.
I upgraded an MX75 running the IDS in security mode from 18.1xx to 19.1 in June and as you can see below the usage didn't really change:
Though looking at it again it might have increased very slightly... I do however remember the increase with 18.2xx being quite marked.
Why not try one site with 19.1, it's been very stable for me since June, which is more than can be said for the MR beta releases... 😬
Can't do , we do not run beta firmware in production 😔
just out of curiosity you might want to call in and check the number of flows going to the device we were having a similar issue and turned out we were flooding the 450 with DNS traffic. We offloaded the traffic and our numbers are looking MUCH better