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

  Per your email you referenced all R&S products. I completely agree
with you for that. It's when Cisco has ventured beyond their traditional
base that they seem to have issues. I'm going back to my Cisco Cius
now..... Wait, it's locked up....

--Hammer--

On 9/20/2010 12:20 AM, Syed Moazzam Daimi wrote:
> Seems like Like Cisco Marketting Team can use this email chain to help
> increase there sell and a feedback for Cisco Product Managers so that they
> can yell on developers not to make so stable products.
>
> Just Kidding..;)
>
>
> Recently I finished a project in Texas where I saw almost all devices (150+
> devices including 6500,4500 and others routers and switches) up and running
> for more than 3 years.
>
> Bravo Cisco !!!
>
> Syed Moazzam Daimi
> CCIE # 22100
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, GAURAV MADAN<gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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