[c-nsp] Feedback on upcoming removal of FTP access to secured software

[Łukasz Bromirski]

On 2010-09-15 23:05, Gert Doering wrote:

> If there's neither a convenient security update nor a contract, then
> it's getting interesting - theoretically, you can buy IOS updates.  In
> practice, nearly no cisco partner/reseller seems to understand *how* to
> do that.  At some time in the past, we bought "12.0" for all our
> routers (then ip-only, for something like 23 EUR/box, but we wanted
> to do it properly), and it was an interesting excercise.

You buy a CD with specific feature-set on them as a spare P/N
(CDxx[platform-feature-set]=), however there's no guarantee short of
unpacking and checking what specific version will be there on the CDs.

The trick is - if you don't have contract, the software on the CD
is the only version you can use, and there's no bundled CCO account
you can use to download newer/older versions. So, it's makes more sense
to have a contract because you get freedom to download specific
version/newer versions in the future *and* TAC/hardware support
(unless the hardware support is covered by the specific service the
box is covered already). That's not always possible, as there's no
option to buy a contract for a box that is already EoS.

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