[c-nsp] Retired IOS Releases

[Nick Hilliard]

On 04/08/2009 01:51, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
> Looks like Cisco went and removed a bunch of IOS release from the
> website in May. Not sure if this has already been discussed here.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/software/SPRIT/swretirement/IOSRetirementTable.html
>
> Anyone with older production equipment should probably archive their
> images from their equipment just in case something happens, because
> apparently you can't get it from Cisco anymore.

Clayton,

Although these images have been retired from the CCO web site, they are 
still available along with a whole pile more from the Cisco FTP site:

ftp://ftp.cisco.com/cisco/ios/

You will need to log in using your web username and password.  The ftp 
archive is great.  There are still images there going back to 11.3, if you 
have really old equipment lying around (e.g. memory limited 2500s and that 
sort of thing).

Unfortunately, the cisco ftp site does not contain 3des images, so if you 
depend on encryption, you will need to maintain a local archive.

Nick