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Late night ROMMON lesson....
xenodamus
Member Posts: 758
in CCNA & CCENT
Well, I decided to upgrade the IOS on my new routers last night and learned that the DRAM quantities listed beside the various IOS versions are NOT suggestions.
I figured that maybe it would still run with less DRAM, just not optimally.
There's no better way to learn than by crashing your router and turning to google...I am now proficient in ROMMON tftp recovery, though!
I figured that maybe it would still run with less DRAM, just not optimally.
There's no better way to learn than by crashing your router and turning to google...I am now proficient in ROMMON tftp recovery, though!
CISSP | CCNA:R&S/Security | MCSA 2003 | A+ S+ | VCP6-DTM | CCA-V CCP-V
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Optionsbermovick Member Posts: 1,135 ■■■■□□□□□□Wait until you do the same thing with a switch... It's even more fun.Latest Completed: CISSP
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Optionsphantasm Member Posts: 995Wait until you do the same thing with a switch... It's even more fun.
Wait until you do it with a production switch in a remote office in another state and the CO tech who is there doesn't have his console cable and has to drive 2hrs to get one."No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -Heraclitus -
Optionsspartangtr Member Posts: 111Wait until you do it with a production switch in a remote office in another state and the CO tech who is there doesn't have his console cable and has to drive 2hrs to get one.
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Optionsphantasm Member Posts: 995Pretty damn much spartangtr. Fortunately I wasn't the one who did it. lol."No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -Heraclitus
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OptionsDeathgomper Member Posts: 356 ■■■□□□□□□□There's no better way to learn than by crashing your router and turning to google...I am now proficient in ROMMON tftp recovery, though!
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Optionsjmc012 Member Posts: 134Well, I decided to upgrade the IOS on my new routers last night and learned that the DRAM quantities listed beside the various IOS versions are NOT suggestions.
I figured that maybe it would still run with less DRAM, just not optimally.
There's no better way to learn than by crashing your router and turning to google...I am now proficient in ROMMON tftp recovery, though!
That is good experience, I had to do it on a couple redundant 7609's the other night, because I had done it on my e-bay 2600's I felt comfortable doing it on real router's. Guess that's why real equipment is preferable to simulators. -
Optionsalan2308 Member Posts: 1,854 ■■■■■■■■□□Well, I decided to upgrade the IOS on my new routers last night and learned that the DRAM quantities listed beside the various IOS versions are NOT suggestions.
I figured that maybe it would still run with less DRAM, just not optimally.
There's no better way to learn than by crashing your router and turning to google...I am now proficient in ROMMON tftp recovery, though!
tftp? You don't gain full membership into the club until you have to do an XModem transfer. -
Optionsxenodamus Member Posts: 758tftp? You don't gain full membership into the club until you have to do an XModem transfer.
Yea, I saw that on the same page as the last resort....I was glad to find that the recovery process wasn't that bad (as long as you back up beforehand lol)
I am glad to have real equipment for moments like that, though. If I ever find a position that affords me the opportunity to put my hands on routers and switches, it will make me feel much more confident to have real world experience with tasks like that.CISSP | CCNA:R&S/Security | MCSA 2003 | A+ S+ | VCP6-DTM | CCA-V CCP-V -
OptionsQHalo Member Posts: 1,488tftp? You don't gain full membership into the club until you have to do an XModem transfer.
XModem die! See ya in 5 hours! -
Optionsburbankmarc Member Posts: 460XModem die! See ya in 5 hours!
You can cut that time in HALF with ymodem!
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Optionsalan2308 Member Posts: 1,854 ■■■■■■■■□□burbankmarc wrote: »You can cut that time in HALF with ymodem!
Learn by doing, that's been my mantra for years.
The time didn't bother me. I knew it would be forever so I started it right before going to bed. Everything was fine when I woke up the next morning. -
OptionsQHalo Member Posts: 1,488burbankmarc wrote: »You can cut that time in HALF with ymodem!
Learn by doing, that's been my mantra for years.
Same here, doesn't mean it sucks any less.