[82824] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Fri Jul 29 14:52:48 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:51:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050729173519.GC8077@segfault.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- John Forrister <john@segfault.com> wrote:
> Indeed - Cisco's hardware, especially the older,
> smaller boxes, tended
> to be really solid once you got them running. I was
> just pondering a
> few minutes ago on how many 2500's I configured &
> installed in 1996 & 1997
> are still running today, on code that's no longer
> supported by
> Cisco, and which are incapable of taking enough
> flash to load a newer image.
As a definite example, A client of mine has a 1601
sitting on the end of a T1 running 11.3... They're
not interested in spending any money on an upgrade, as
the box is doing exactly what they want: running RIP
internally, and taking Ethernet-in and Serial-out.
-David
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