Re: [NTLK] Warning: 20 MB Cards Recently on eBay

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 17:22:02 EST


on 18-01-2002 9:11, Andrew Beals at bandy_at_cinnamon.com wrote:

> Good question. Routers used internally for development purposes may have
> their flash erased and re-written often, but I doubt that customers do that.
> The only data that goes on the flash, typically, is the IOS image itself. I
> have yet to run across a dead flash card in the lab, and some of my co-workers
> do have a bad habit of writing their image on the flash and booting from that
> instead of loading it via bootp. Then again, we tend to toss the "obsolete"
> stuff pretty quickly, as most of the bug reports come in on the newer
> platforms because that's where the new features go in.

But do note that the story how a flash card dies that I posted the other day
was from personal experience, and it was a Cisco card from a router, so I
get the feeling that there are a lot of like your colleagues out there :-(

Robert Benschop

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