[c-nsp] SmartNET on Used Router?

[Daniel Roesen]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:56:09AM -0500, Brett Frankenberger wrote:
> That might or mught not be true.  Cisco policy is that IOS licenses
> cannot be transferred and that you have to pay relicensing if you buy
> used hardware.  This has never, to me knowledge, been challanged in
> court, and it's not at all clear that Cisco's view would prevail.

This view is already ruled unlawful in Germany. Thanks to some common
sense of courts here.

Software for specific hardware is always transferrable with the
hardware, no matter what the vendor claims or tries to make folks
believe - in Germany.

The vendor's tricks are then to refuse support contracts for such used
gear, without going thru some special "inspection" (for a prohibitive
fee). If you can get away without support contract - no problem.

Caveat: this info is a few years old, from when I last looked deeper
into those issues. Things may have changed somewhat in vendor's
policies, but not AFAIK (and I doubt they did).


Regards,
Daniel

PS: I use the term "vendor" because it's not just Cisco, it's a very
common scheme.

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