[66383] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Fri Jan 9 02:47:41 2004
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:46:17 -0800
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040108083956.3B2094986@genesis.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:39 AM 1/8/2004, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > Hardware is probably cheaper on eBay than the maintenance fees anyway.
>
>You should be wary of purchasing second user Cisco equipment and
>their software license. Hardware is transferable but the Cisco
>software is not.
If you are buying for replacement equipment and not build-out equipment,
you *already* have Cisco software licenses for all the units in production,
and could swap new (used) hardware in to replace damaged hardware without
needing a new license. In that situation, buying used spares on eBay
certainly can be cheaper than paying maintenance fees.
jc
