[c-nsp] ASR-9001 IOS-XR, no image

[Jared Mauch]

Without going into all the detail, Cisco developers have no concept of remote management of their hardware.  I've tried to educate the various teams, but I'm not going to spend all that time for zero ROI as they need to ship the new ROMMON from mfg, and instead they could just fix the mfg process.

Easier thing to do is to RMA the hardware as unusable and ask them to pull it from their 4H spares depots to highlight the problem and repair it.

- Jared

On Jun 25, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Aaron wrote:

> open a bug for FTP support.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 25, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Vinny Abello wrote:
>> 
>>> I recently just received a few ASR-9001 routers and was surprised to find they did not come with the required IOS-XR 4.2.1 image at all and are effectively paperweights.
>> 
>> I had observed something similar to this in the past.  If it was ordered with the = (equals sign) at the trail of the part number manufacturing assumes its a spare even if its part of a full-kit, and may not include the software.
>> 
>> This is very frustrating as the ROMMON only supports TFTP and not anything that can do window-scaling over a distance with latency, etc…  This can make the loading of software take hours depending on the RTT to your staging host.
>> 
>> - Jared
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