[5479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Sun Oct 20 17:27:07 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
To: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>, alexis@panix.com, michael@memra.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.0.845764533.rob@solar.rjl.com>
On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Rob Liebschutz wrote:
==>Is this a general statement about flash, or just about the flash in Ciscos?
==>I'd find it hard to believe that well designed solid state devices could
==>be lest reliable than a disk drive, especially since a large part of a disk
==>drive is solid state as well.
In all the experience I have had with ciscos, I have only seen three
instances in which some type of memory was lost:
* An old CGS lost its NVRAM config due to invalid checksum
* A 3204's NVRAM had a problem approximately 1000 bytes into the config.
If you had a small config, it would work fine, but when you write a
larger config to memory, then reload, it would report that checksum was
invalid.
* A 1003's PCMCIA socket believed any flash card inserted was
write-protected. This could have been due to bent PCMCIA pins, but I
didn't bother to find out.
/cah
