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On Dec 30, 12:25, "Robert Davila" <[email protected]> wrote: ^^^^^^ Blasting in from the future. > I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several > VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations Since you say "several", there's one amusing (or not, as the case may be) gotcha, which is that interface cards are reset and initialized sequentially. For normal cards this is no big deal, but for VIPs the process is considerably more involved and time-consuming -- the VIP is a stand-alone system with it's own special IOS image, and it takes 2-3 minutes to boot. Hence, expect a 7513 fully loaded with VIPs to spend half an hour booting before it starts doing anything useful. Cisco is apparently working on parallel booting, but AFAIK it isn't there yet. -- ------ ___ --- Per G. Bilse, Director Network Eng & Ops ----- / / / __ ___ _/_ ---- EUnet Communications Services B.V. ---- /--- / / / / /__/ / ----- Singel 540, 1017 AZ Amsterdam, NL --- /___ /__/ / / /__ / ------ tel: +31 20 5305333, fax: +31 20 6224657 --- ------- 24hr emergency number: +31 20 421 0865 --- Connecting Europe since AS286 --- http://www.EU.net e-mail: bilse at domain
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