[5478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Sanders)
Sun Oct 20 01:23:54 1996
From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: 20 Oct 1996 01:20:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vadim Antonov's message of Sat, 19 Oct 1996 13:47:17 -0700
Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net> writes:
> In my experience flash is a lot _less_ reliable than HDs. Ciscos losing
> flash contents aren't that uncommon.
...
> So, for a boot device floppy is probably the best (providing it's not
In my experience, in an equal amount of hours of running Netblazers
and Ciscos, the routers' flash has never failed me while the
Netblazers *all* eventually failed to boot from floppy. The
environment wasn't especially dusty, but it wasn't a clean room. I'd
hesitate to use any floppy-booted device intended for use out of arm's
reach.
-- Robert
