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The 6509 and 2811 and other older models are amazing. I use catalyst switches and routers I bought from ebay and craigslist almost 10 years agi that were probab
by _8j50 5y ago
The 6509 and 2811 and other older models are amazing. I use catalyst switches and routers I bought from ebay and craigslist almost 10 years agi that were probably resold several times after production use. I am no longer in networking but I was always impressed when I ssh into some arbitrary switch or router to troubleshoot and see 10+ year uptime. I bet 20+ is common these days.
I am sure others have stories in this regard. Someone told me their remote router died after 12 years uptime but only because of a lightning strike.
From a software perspective, the Cisco IOS has been doing "unikernel" before it was hyped. Can't say that's a factor but having a standalone binary as the entire OS might perhaps make testing and shipping a sturdy stack easier?
- netfl0 5y agoCame here looking for reminiscing. You could do wild things with the right 6500 setup. It was like driving a manual transmission.
- iso1631 5y agoI'm embarrased to say I have some cisco 3750 edge switches with 10+ year uptimes. They are isolated at a management level but really should have their firmware upgraded. Arranging downtime with 30 different stakeholders who don't subscribe to the concept of multiple services capable of failure is never easy.
- manbart 5y agoAFAIK all the newer Cisco IOS boxes are running Linux now, i.e. IOS XE
- _8j50 5y agoThey are. All the Nexus/nxos line as well. You don't hear people rave about their reliability as much as IOS.