--0__=JToC7teTkxcX4F8GdQaRIJfj7mRh8jZBaTqEPMBMYANUp7y6ykEs2jT0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline The same idea doesn't really apply to Cisco's IOS. Cisco doesn't release patches in the same sense as other OS vendors... you replace the whole OS at once. In some respects this is easier... you know you've got everything applied (patched) properly. It's also easy to blast a new version to every piece of equipment if you decide to do so. A TFTP server and a little scripting with the CMU SNMP package will do that for you. In other ways, it's harder.. Cisco does not go back and patch every old version of IOS to correct the problem you're trying to fix... you're stuck with running the latest rev of a few current versions. These versions add features, take more resources, and generally don't "just" fix the problem at hand. So, you have to make sure you've got enough flash and RAM, etc.. to run it.. and make sure you're compatibile with older versions that are staying (not usually too much of a problem, but sometimes...) Deciding if you can put a new rev on a router gets really hard if you're running some of the newer hardware. For example, we're having a heck of a time finding a version of 11.3 that will run a 7513 with an RSP4, a number of VIP2-40 and VIP2-50 cards, and HSSI PA's. We're not even going to *touch* trying to run dual RSP4's and/or doing an HSRP arrangement with another 7513 yet. Yes, Cisco has discovered that doing multiprocessing is hard :) Ryan --0__=JToC7teTkxcX4F8GdQaRIJfj7mRh8jZBaTqEPMBMYANUp7y6ykEs2jT0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:46:02AM +0000, John RIddoch wrote: > To carry on the thread of keeping Solaris patched, I wrote a script t= o > automatically update a systems patches overnight via cron. Great work. But are things like that available for other OSes (I=B4m th= inking of AIX, HP-UX, CISCO IOS[?] and so on)? Randolf Skerka = --0__=JToC7teTkxcX4F8GdQaRIJfj7mRh8jZBaTqEPMBMYANUp7y6ykEs2jT0--
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