Re: [NTLK] Router Flash cards

Roman Pixell [GMail] wrote:
> stay away,
>
> its not very safe to put your data on those. they can be depleted, or
> used up by the routers vicious read/write routines.
>
> if youre goin to use one of those cards, make sure its a new one. if
> you still want to try, dont put anything valuable on it, data gets
> corrupted sooner or later. maybe you can use it for apps and keep the
> valuable program data on internal flash? i think its trial and error ...

It actually depends on the router it was used in and how it was configured.
A lot of the time these cards were just used for loading Cisco IOS and
upgrades. The Cisco should be using its RAM for its memory scratchpad.

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