[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

Aaron dudepron at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 13:16:18 EDT 2020


ethernet console should be on the list.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:01 PM joe mcguckin <joe at via.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 21/Jul/20 17:34, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > The joy of when things just work :-).
> >
> > 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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