TACACS+ and C2500s SUCK!!!

[Damaged]

frickin', frackin', fsckin'!!!!! ARGH!!!!

Get the idea? Stupid routers won't load the new IOS image. Keeps timing out to the tftp server. Well, just two of them running REALLY old boostrap images (version 5 something). I was trying to get this working on all our routers this mornings downtime, but two of them, both with that bootstrap image refuse to play nice. FSCKERS!!!

The other 20 assorted C2600s and C2500s all played just fine.

No bother. I'm about to have 18 2600s available after I reterminate all those DS-1s to a DS-3 and a multichannel DS-3 card in a 7206 VXR. So screw 'em if they won't cooperate! I'll replace their asses!

 

[spidey07]

man, your bootstrap is old.

How are you trying to load the software? ROMMON or with IOS already loaded?

yeah, the T3 cards are nice with the integrated csu. I use'em all the time.

 

[CTR]

I had to replace the proms on a 2511 once to get it to recognize some new mem I was putting in it. I called TAC and described the problem and they shipped out the new proms for free. Was it fun opening up a customer's router and pulling the proms then jamming in new ones? No. Especially since they were watching me do it.

 

[Damaged]

IOS already loaded. Worked fine on the half dozen other C2500s I had to do this on, just those two were being stubborn. So I do a sh flh to see what the deal is and it's timing out to the tftp server. Thing is is that I can ping the tftp server just fine, it just won't go. So then I do a sh ver again and notice that the bootstrap image is REALLY old. So, I figure that's the issue because all the other C2500s are using 11 something for a bootstrap.

Well, I thought I could just flash the new bootstrap, but it seems you have to open the case to do that on these puppies. You don't have to do that on a lot of the newer routers, you can just flash via tftp copy.

Since these are remote POPs I won't be doing that. I'll just configure up a couple of 2610's with two T-1 WICs like we use in most small remote pops and replace them.

 

[spidey07]

HAHAHAAA

yep, good call damage. If your boot prom is really that old (say pre 9.0) then you could replace prom or simply replace router. I'd go the 2610 route. Send those 2500s my way. I've got 6 25xx in my home lab. Need more to study for CCIE.

If you're really bored call up TAC and make them take care of it. Better yet...you do have dial access to those puppies right? Let TAC fix it. That's what you pay them for.

my .02

cya

WOW - just checked my home lab. Most are running ROM 5.2 or less. But I'm running 12.1 IOS on them. Go figure. Call TAC. PS - just ordered two 7206 VXR/VPN routers for internet. Guess my scalable VPN solution is going to come together after all. CTR - anyword on ACE server? Wait a sec...I remember some kind of TFTP timeout problem when I upgraded them. PM me and I'll give you work phone. You can upgrade these routers, I just can't remember what I did to get around it.

 

[shadow]

yikes! 8 routers for home lab to learn for CCIE??

do you really need all that??

jeez...

 

[dukenukem]

And I thought my home office/lab electrical bill was high.....

 

[Damaged]

Heh. I don't know what the fsck we're going to do with all the old 2500s we have. They are still somewhat useful as they have 8MB RAM and 4MB flash. Most of them we have use the integrated T-1 CSU/DSU cards, I forget what those part #s are right now.

We also have a crapload of them with the Cisco octo cable for connecting them to an external CSU, and we even have a Cisco Pro or three laying around (YUCK!).

What's really kinda sad right now is that we have a Cisco 7513 just sitting here doing nothing along with two Cisco 7507s. Finally we're about to decommission a Cisco 5513 with two rsm's (at least that what I recall it being) and we're not sure what to do with it. Basically replaced by a Juniper M20 and some Foundry FastIrons.

If you ever want a cheap solution for playing around with Juniper stuff you can make an olive box out of an old computer you have laying around. We set one up at work to play around. Since it's FreeBSD based you can do that if you have a service contract with Juniper so that you can get the images. Kinda cool. So, if you've ever played with gated and iproute2 stuff you'll get most of what the Juniper is about.

shadow: I'd venture to say he's probably got a switch or two in that mix as well.

Ooops. Console access, unfortunately not for those two, though we should. One of the few POPs where we don't have a console server hooked up. That would've been too danged easy spidey!

 

[spidey07]

DOH! No console access??? I ran into your exact problem but can't for the life of me figure out what I did to fix it. I think I erased the flash first (scary)


Do I need 6-9 routers for CCIE study. YEP I've got every routing protocol know to man kind running with full redistribution between them. Not that you'd ever want to do that in the real world, but for the LAB...gotta make the most fcked up networks you can imagine and then break them.

 

[shadow]

jesus, CCIE scares me

 

[Russ]

Bump for a good technical discussion.

NOTE: Good technical discussion is defined as one where I don't understand at least 50% of what is being said.

Russ, NCNE

 

[shadow]

sounds like you need some routers for your own home lab to play with Russ.....

 

[spidey07]

7513 and two 7507s doing nothing! Bring them on over, I'll splice into Bell's SONET ring at OC12 and get onto their net. Spidey+Damaged ISP. We could offer the "computer geeks" DSL service. Cost a little bit more but would have SLAs such as No more than 40 mils latency and super bandwidth. Whatdya say? Oh yeah, unlimited newsfeeds as well.

hehehe

 

[Damaged]

no news! I hate news. Well, let me be more specific: I hate all the binaries on news. That accounts for a constant 85Mbps of traffic on our network, with peaks hitting 125Mbps+. Which, I suppose isn't bad, but I despise listening to users complain about missing binaries from the feed. If about 99% of that stuff weren't illegal it wouldn't bother me, not to mention that it's neither the spirit, nor the intention of nntp.

heh, you don't want the switch? Layer 3 switching on that was not the best thing in the world on that device.