Re: OT: Switch up time...4 years!

  11 years is pretty impressive. The kicker is that back then (11.x) the
IOS was solid enough to support those kinds of uptimes. I don't have a
single piece of Cisco gear that doesn't have a bug or two that has
warranted an upgrade. The farther you get from the traditional routing
and switching gear, the worse it gets. My 7206s are pretty solid.
Running OSPF/BGP/etc.

FWSMs - a few bugs and vulnerabilities
ACEs - Bleh. Storm-O-bugs
WAAS - Bleh. Storm-O-bugs
ASAs - a few bugs
6509s - bugs
3560s/3750s/4948s - pretty solid
7207s - pretty solid

I miss the good old days.....

--Hammer--

On 9/18/2010 4:06 PM, Robert Hosford wrote:
> I don't see code that old because the Y2K. But when you're a switch does it matter?
>
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> A 3.12 server no doubt. A switch up that long and never patched I bet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Gary Duncanson
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> Beaten by a Novell server somewhere no doubt. Still impressive though!
>
> Gary CNE
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> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Switch up time...4 years!
>
>
>> Without intentionally being a "topper" - here is one a colleague found
>> recently:
>>
>> XXXXXXXXXXX#show ver
>> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
>> IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-IS-L), Version 11.2(14), RELEASE SOFTWARE
>> (fc1)
>> Copyright (c) 1986-1998 by cisco Systems, Inc.
>> Compiled Mon 18-May-98 12:43 by tlane
>> Image text-base: 0x0302F4E4, data-base: 0x00001000
>> ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 5.2(5), RELEASE SOFTWARE
>> BOOTFLASH: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-RXBOOT), Version 10.2(5), RELEASE
>> SOFTWARE (fc1)
>> XXXXXXXXX uptime is *11 years, 1 week, 4 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes
>> *System restarted by power-on at 12:06:58 UTC Mon Jul 12 1999
>> System image file is "flash:c2500-is-l_112-14.bin", booted via flash
>> cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision L) with 2048K/2048K bytes of
>> memory.
>> Processor board ID 01880349, with hardware revision 00000000
>> Bridging software.
>> X.25 software, Version 2.0, NET2, BFE and GOSIP compliant.
>> 2 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
>> 2 Serial network interface(s)
>> 32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
>> 8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
>> Configuration register is 0x2102
>>
>>
>> It was a good effort.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Dale Shaw<dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Brad Ellis<brad_at_ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
>>>>> C3548XL-COLO-INET uptime is 4 years, 30 weeks, 4 days, 2 hours, 12
>>>>> minutes
>>>>> System returned to ROM by reload
>>>>> System restarted at 17:43:37 PST Thu Feb 16 2006
>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM, GAURAV MADAN<gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Thats the quality Cisco delivers !
>>> Hmm.. 3500XL. it's probably more that the operators are afraid to type
>>> any commands into it, in case it decides to do something weird and
>>> unexplainable, requiring a reload. That's probably what happened last
>>> time.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Dale
>>>
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