[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.com
Thu Jul 23 04:02:08 EDT 2020



On 23/Jul/20 08:31, Saku Ytti wrote:

> You can still have SLR
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/smart-licensing/qsg/b_Smart_Licensing_QuickStart/b_Smart_Licensing_QuickStart_chapter_01000.html
> and get persistent smart license you install on your device and it'll
> never phone home.
>
> You might want to argue an air gapped router to get itt, or if you
> have commercial leverage apply that liberally.

Good tip, especially useful since our RR's have no BGP FIB, and as such,
have no way to "call home".

The other option we'd looked at was the SSM (Smart Software Manager)
on-prem, as I'm not keen on having routers make arbitrary calls to some
cloud over at Cisco.

Mark.


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