[c-nsp] 2 bad Cisco FE I/O cards in two different 7206vxr in two weeks.

[Robert E.Seastrom]

Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:42:40AM -0400, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
>> You didn't mention the precise nature of the failure, but since you
>> mention the lithium battery I'll go under the assumption that the
>> router lost its NVRAM.  Not that uncommon to have that croak at the
>> same time on routers of similar vintage that have run in the same
>> environment.
>
> Uh oh.  What's the typical lifespan of a Cisco 7200 NVRAM?  (We have
> a number of very early 7200s that are still happily chugging along,
> and I'd really hate to see them lose their startup-config all of a 
> sudden).

That's a good question and not what I was really addressing - I was
only observing that, generally, seeing identical-aged equipment
operated for the same time period in the same environment wasn't such
an unusual occurrance.  

                                        ---Rob