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

[Phil Bedard]

The 9001 at least comes with a USB port.  Sometimes it's easier to ship a USB stick than deal with loading software via remote.  

Phil

On 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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