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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Mork wrote: > "Christopher L. Morrow" <[email protected]> writes: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Mork wrote: > >> Randy Bush <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >> > fred, seeing as there is not now, and likely never will be fixed > >> > versions for many of our routers (25xx, 17xx, ..., and i can't > >> > >> No? > >> > >> Logged in to ftp.cisco.com. > >> Current remote directory is /cisco. > >> ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/2500/ > >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 518 1 11013444 Jul 25 14:50 c2500-c-l.123-15a.bin > >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 518 1 12303148 Jul 25 15:17 c2500-i-l.123-15a.bin > >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 518 1 16191744 Jul 25 14:34 c2500-is-l.123-15a.bin > > > > note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 2500's don't have > > 16M flash :( many, many referenced before (term servers for instance) are > > 2mb flash boxes. It's possible that Randy's referring to this sort of > > 2500. > > I might be wrong, but I thought an image with IPv6 support required > 16 MB flash on the 2500? Anyway, the upgrade path is there although and in order to get 30k devices (more actually) upgraded I'll have to spend 30k+X dollars? I'm fairly certain that's not going to happen. This gets back to 2 things: 1) no (practical) upgrade path under security vulnerabilities (hence reluctance of vendors to release info without fix) 2) possibly unhappy customers and vulnerabilities silently fixed in other code trains. Oh well...
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