[c-nsp] Re-licensing secondhand Cisco equipment

[Chris Marget]

My primary interest with this query is to do everything above-board from a
software licensing perspective.

Hardware support (warranty) and TAC support is a secondary concern.

Software updates, on the other hand, do kind of matter.

Is there a "right way" to handle software updates without a support
contract? What is it?

Surely the folks who buy this thing aren't forever stuck with whatever
software version it happens to ship with... Are they?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833120360

It's frustrating that the OS required to run a router can't be transferred
with the device. I'm sure people would freak right out if, say, General
Motors tried that with the software that runs in their cars.

Heck, even Microsoft allows you to transfer OS licenses, sometimes with
hardware, sometimes without.

It's not clear that it's even *possible* to use secondhand Cisco equipment
without running afoul of the license terms, which seems kind of crazy.

I'm just hoping I'm wrong about this, for the cases where the budget falls
somewhere between "stealing" and "gold plated"


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> What about support with Cisco (eg TAC) and software updates,  security
> patches,  bug fixes etc?
>
> alan
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