[nsp] Cisco 1700 IOS suggestion?

[Gerald]

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> Pretty wide open and broad set of requirements.

I'm not picky. :-)

> No mention of needed routing protocols for example.

The business that I am setting this up for will only try to stress the
router with their NAT rules. It will not be doing BGP/OSPF/etc. (I'm still
teaching it how to dial at the moment, but that authentication problem
will be a separate E-mail after I've exhausted all other resources.)

> I'll assume that you want SSH for remote terminal access to the 1720
> instead of telnet. I also included dial backup as you mention.
>
> If you want SSHv2 support, it doesn't seem to be there yet on the 1720.
> If you can live with just SSHv1, you have a lot of choices.

The Netopia it is replacing only has telnet. SSHv1 is an improvement.

> Here is just a sample:
> 12.2(21)	IP PLUS IPSEC 3DES
> c1700-k9sy-mz.12.2-21			32	8
>
> 12.2(21)	IP PLUS IPSEC 56
> c1700-k8sy-mz.12.2-21			32	8
>
> 12.2(21)	IP/FW/IDS PLUS IPSEC 3DES
> c1700-k9o3sy-mz.12.2-21			32	8
>
> 12.2(21)	IP/FW/IDS PLUS IPSEC 56
> c1700-k8o3sy-mz.12.2-21			32	8
>
> 12.2(21)	IP/IPX/AT/IBM/FW/IDS PLUS IPSEC 3DES
> c1700-bk9no3r2sy-mz.12.2-21		48	8
>
> 12.2(21)	IP/IPX/AT/IBM/FW/IDS PLUS IPSEC 56
> c1700-bk8no3r2sy-mz.12.2-21		48	8

Thanks for the suggestions. The router has 8 MB of flash so that knocked
one more off my choice list from your suggestions. Another poster
suggested an image that was actually lower than the one on it, so I think
I will be narrowing from your list. (It has a 12.2 something image &
Richard suggested a 12.0 something.)

> I would recommend using the Feature Navigator function on cisco.com to
> narrow it down to the features and platforms that you need in your
> environment.  Check it out at
> http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp

*sigh* The feature navigator. The feature navigator unfortunately is a
computer program, and one setup by cisco at that. I have not had the best
of experiences with it. It did get me down to I think just under 500
suggestions of IOS that work with this router. I was able to further
narrow it down by only having 8 MB of flash...then I turned to this list
to hopefully be able to put in a: "This one works for me" which is what I
needed to help finally settle on one.

Sometimes I just want to take a map akin to
http://kod.inch.com/pics/funny/03_800.jpg and throw a darts at it until I
get one.  (jpg is from Juniper's site if anyone hasn't seen it before.)

Thanks again for the suggestions,

Gerald