[82982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Aug 3 05:50:10 2005
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:49:38 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0508030149070.7250@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> > note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 2500's don't have
> > 16M flash.
>
> If you feel like keeping 2500s in service, rather than replacing them with
> something that holds NM-32As, the flash problem is easily resolved for less
> than US$50:
>
> http://www.memorydealers.com/8mbcisthirpa.html
to be fair... 2500s are quite useful for things other than what their original
purpose intended, but that usefulness diminishes with memory upgrades that are
comparable in price to the value of the router
having said that, as they are often not used as public routers, a suitably
placed acl/fw can keep them out of harms way and still run the old code
Steve
