The 9001 at least comes with a USB port. Sometimes it's easier to ship a USB stick than deal with loading software via remote.
Phil On Jun 25, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Vinny Abello wrote: > >> I recently just received a few ASR-9001 routers and was surprised to find >> they did not come with the required IOS-XR 4.2.1 image at all and are >> effectively paperweights. > > I had observed something similar to this in the past. If it was ordered with > the = (equals sign) at the trail of the part number manufacturing assumes its > a spare even if its part of a full-kit, and may not include the software. > > This is very frustrating as the ROMMON only supports TFTP and not anything > that can do window-scaling over a distance with latency, etc… This can make > the loading of software take hours depending on the RTT to your staging host. > > - Jared > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
