[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[joe mcguckin]

We don’t buy anything that can’t be managed with a serial connection. That means no fancy web based guis. Licensing is in the same category… A piece of equipment has to do something extraordinary before we’d consider purchasing it, if it implements some sort of license key scheme.  We’ve purchased Juniper M series routers in the past and were extremely happy with them (Hey! They actually did what Juniper said they would do without 2 or 3 rounds of hardware upgrades), but I was initially put off because there are license keys embedded in the base software. Then I realized that when the keys expired in 10 years, the boxes would be in the landfill by that time...

Joe 


Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications

joe at via.net
650-207-0372 cell
650-213-1302 office
650-969-2124 fax



> On Jul 21, 2020, at 8:44 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:
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> On 21/Jul/20 17:34, Seth Mattinen wrote:
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>> Someone jumped in and sent me an updated license. As far as why it
>> can't be done online, I'm not sure. I haven't tried to rehost anything
>> in a while.
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> The joy of when things just work :-).
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> We had to because we had some boxes fail in that period. Fair point, the
> servers had been nearly 7 years old, so can't blame them.
> 
> Nonetheless, glad you're back up and running.
> 
> Mark.
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