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Re: Cisco Flash help needed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Fri Feb 9 10:27:42 2001

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>Anyone know if there's already something like this for NT? :)

No - although now I've done the work of working out the format, I'm sure 
someone will do it.

>What exactly is the purpose anyway?  Extra storage?  If so, how fast can 
>the labtop write/read to the flash?  

The purpose is to avoid having to use tftp to get files on/off the cisco. 
The laptop can read the cards at the same speed as the cisco.

>What is the biggest size of a flash 
>anyone ever seen? 

The biggest I've got is 20M

> I only saw 110M card before.

I think you get up into the PCMCIA hard drives at those capacities.

>While we are on the subject, is there way to look at the source code of the 
>cisco ios?

Yes - go work for Cisco ;)

Simon
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