From: Les Hardin (hardinl@xxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 15:24:48 GMT-3
Nigel,
That's an odd comment from Cisco, considering you can download -mz- files
from CCO!
Les
At 04:41 AM 3/2/2001 -0500, Nigel Taylor wrote:
>All,
> Just as a note, sometime ago I posted a thread that cisco did frown
>one this type of modification to their software product. I also noted that
>although the program(mzmaker) in question is in wide use, Cisco believes
>they must stay committed to limiting the extent as to how widely used this
>program ultimately becomes. I was also warned at the time of cisco's
>intentions to prosecute anyone whom they deemed altered their product.
>Please refer to the SLA that you agree to when downloading the IOS software
>images, that pretty much explains it.
>
>Just thought I'd mention it...!
>
>Nigel..
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steven Weber <itweber@earthlink.net>
>To: CCIE Lab groupstudy.com <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; David C Prall
><dcp@dcptech.com>
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:00 PM
>Subject: Re: Compressing IOS image
>
>
> >
> > I have 2 2501's here running enterprise + 12.1 with 8 flash and 16
> > dram
> >
> > never crashes although it does takes an extra minute or two to boot up
> > because the image needs to be uncompressed
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: David C Prall
> >
> > To: CCIE Lab groupstudy.com
> >
> > Sent: 3/1/01 10:53:21 PM
> >
> > Subject: Re: Compressing IOS image
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: mtcisco@yahoo.com
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to compress IOS image. I have
> >
> > 2500 series router with 8mb flash and I want to load
> >
> > enterprise software that is 15mb in size. I don't have
> >
> > extra money to upgrade them to 16mb flash. If anyone
> >
> > knows how pleae let me know asap, my lab date is next
> >
> > week. Thanks
> >
> > Mitch
> >
> >
> >
> > Just remember that you are uncompressing the image into ram, and then
> >
> > attempting to run it from there. If the image is 15MB in size, you can
> > most
> >
> > likely compress it down to just under 8MB's. As soon as it loads though
> > it
> >
> > most likely will crash the router, since max ram in a 2500 is 16MB and
> > you
> >
> > have just taken up 15 of that. Even worse most 2500's set aside 2 MB's
> > as
> >
> > buffer leaving 14MB to start with.
> >
> >
> >
> > Believe me when I tell you, it will crash the router. I use images that
> > are
> >
> > 10MB requiring 6MB of Ram. When you start doing tricky stuff they some
> > times
> >
> > start having MALLOC and TRACEBACK errors, or worse lock up tight.
> > 11.3
> >
> > enterprise is about as far as you can go doing this.
> >
> >
> >
> > The same applies to TFTP'ing the image as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > David C Prall dcp@dcptech.com http://dcp.dcptech.com
> >
> >
> >
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