On 2010-09-15 23:05, Gert Doering wrote:
If there's neither a convenient security update nor a contract, then it's getting interesting - theoretically, you can buy IOS updates. In practice, nearly no cisco partner/reseller seems to understand *how* to do that. At some time in the past, we bought "12.0" for all our routers (then ip-only, for something like 23 EUR/box, but we wanted to do it properly), and it was an interesting excercise.
You buy a CD with specific feature-set on them as a spare P/N (CDxx[platform-feature-set]=), however there's no guarantee short of unpacking and checking what specific version will be there on the CDs. The trick is - if you don't have contract, the software on the CD is the only version you can use, and there's no bundled CCO account you can use to download newer/older versions. So, it's makes more sense to have a contract because you get freedom to download specific version/newer versions in the future *and* TAC/hardware support (unless the hardware support is covered by the specific service the box is covered already). That's not always possible, as there's no option to buy a contract for a box that is already EoS. -- "Everything will be okay in the end. | Łukasz Bromirski If it's not okay, it's not the end." | http://lukasz.bromirski.net _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
