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

11 yrs is very very impressive ..

Hammer ,
How would you rank the ISRs ( 28xx , 38xx ) .. I find them solid as well :)

Gaurav Madan
CCIE # 23863

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:38 AM, --Hammer-- <bhmccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Robert Hosford
>> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 3:14 PM
>> To: Gary Duncanson; Martin Hogan
>> Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
>> Subject: RE: OT: Switch up time...4 years!
>>
>> 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
>> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 3:04 PM
>> To: Martin Hogan
>> Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
>> Subject: Re: OT: Switch up time...4 years!
>>
>> Beaten by a Novell server somewhere no doubt. Still impressive though!
>>
>> Gary CNE
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Martin Hogan"<martin.john.hogan_at_gmail.com>
>> To:<ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
>> 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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