There are many faces to Cisco, and Cisco has generally been quite good
about supporting IOS wherever there are still the resources required
to run it.
Maybe they need encouragement to retro 12.2T to the 2500 series before
the decision becomes cast-in-stone past history, but let's put the
positive reasons for doing so up front, not just jump on the negative
assumptions.
My home router is a AE-EC router on a PC-card, which thinks it's a
2501 these days, I wanted to play with IPv6 that's where I'd start,
at work it's 2501's, 4000's, and 7000/RSP7k stuff that's falling out
of the main network.
Of course it would be nice if Cisco would roll the C5RSM support back
into the 7500 mainstream, since it's just an RSP2/VIP thing with a
a funny ISL-supporting kind-a-like ethernet link into the back plane,
but it's kind of a dead issue at this point.
George
> From cisco-nsp-request@puck.nether.net Fri Jun 8 17:11:38 2001
> Resent-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:11:30 -0400
> Received-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:08:57 -0400
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
> To: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
> cc: Siva Valliappan <svalliap@cisco.com>, David Sinn <dsinn@microsoft.com>,
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> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Gert Doering wrote:
> > I can get IPv6 only as a big fat bundle with lots of stuff I don't need...
> > and the very same problem leads to sudden EOL of the 2500 series
>
> I think you just answered your own question :-)
>
> Cisco doesnt want to support old routers, they want to sell you new ones.
>
> -Dan
>
>
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