[c-nsp] uBR924 code

[Gary Stanley]

At 05:38 PM 11/1/2007, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

>I went down this route myself (for no particular reason other than
>geekiness of being able to see interesting docsis details which are hidden
>in residential grade equipment) and was quickly beaten down into the kind
>of submission that makes one happy to buy a $50 linksys cable modem.
>
>In theory the main difference between the 924 and 925 is the hardware
>accelerated 3des (where hw accelerated is still too slow to be worth
>bothering, around 2Mbps), but in practice there is a difference in what
>code you can run. The 924 has fixed flash (which can't be upgraded) of
>4MB, and there is absolutely no modern code which will fit on it. I went
>through every image CCO had available, found exactly one which in theory
>supported DOCSIS 1.1, but it would immediately crash every time the cable0
>interface would come up.
>
>The whole thing was a pretty big waste of time for me. With only DOCSIS
>1.1 supported, and only a 10M half duplex ethernet link, the thing has a
>very limited lifespan even if it could be made to work today.
>
> > On a related note, does Cisco still make a CM or have they bowed out to
> > Moto and their 5100 series CMs?  We run Moto CMs and Arris MTAs.
>
>The only offically supported route seems to be the DOCSIS 2.0 WIC, but its
>overpriced even on ebay. :)

I have a 924, and ran into similar issues with the IOS upgrade 
crashing when cable0 would come up.. :(