[82825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Whyte)
Fri Jul 29 15:04:44 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:02:39 -0700
From: Scott Whyte <swhyte@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Scott Whyte <swhyte@gmail.com>
To: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050729185155.35185.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7/29/05, David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- 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.
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> 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.
As a counter-point, many thousands of routers were needlessly upgraded
because of Y2K, edge to core. Its not about reality, its about
perception.
-Scott
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> -David
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