[c-nsp] c3660: Utterly baffled by ROMs

Buhrmaster, Gary gtb at slac.stanford.edu
Mon Nov 10 12:46:02 EST 2008


 

> ...  BUT, many
> of the older Cisco routers DID NOT have this capability,
> you HAD to buy the rom chips from Cisco.

Actually, some of the older rommon images could be
downloaded from Cisco by "partners" and they could
write them to PROMs for their direct customers.

(And, of course, if you were of the mindset, and
you had a working rommon, you could put same into
the programmer and duplicate it; at least with
all of the programmers I ever owned you could do
that with ROM/PROM/EEPROMs, although sometimes
it was a multi-step procedure since there was
only one zif socket.)

Gary


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