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In article <1992Jul11.024530.6358@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>, bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
|> In <9219220.621@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
|> 
|> >We have new roms on the way from cisco in the US (experimental fix)
|> >which have some promise of curing the problem.  In the meantime, I'm
|> >now hopeful that things are in a state where its going to stay up
|> >for a while (fingers crossed...)
|> 
|> You mean you can't download the new firmware into NVRAM? Or is
|> that an option on the next model?

The  router  in  question (a cisco IGS/R) has only 1 Mb of memory. You need at
least 4.5  Mb  of  memory  to  "netboot"  the  executable  system  image.  The
configuration  of  the  router (IP addresses, routing, all that good stuff) is
saved in a separate 32K NVM. What you might be  refering  to  is  the  "Flash"
EPROM option which is now available, which allows a system image to be booted, 
then  saved  into a Flash memory card. This is a pay-more-money option that is 
not available on  this  particular  model,  but  is  available  on  the  CSC/3 
processor and CSC/4 processor based cisco models. 

Since the problem that we are experiencing (the router shuts down its ethernet 
interface  due  to  a lack of memory buffers of a certain size due to a bug in 
the cisco code) only effects IGS routers,  we  are  planning  to  replace  the 
problem  router with a CSC/3 based router as soon as practicable (but it turns
out this may be a few days which is why the ROMs are beeing shipped  from  the
US). 

-- 
Peter Elford,                             e-mail: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au
Network Co-ordinator                      phone: +61 6 249 3542
Australian Academic Research Network      fax:   +61 6 249 1369
c/o, Computer Services Centre             pager: +61 6 245 3035
Australian National University            post: GPO Box 1142     
Canberra, AUSTRALIA                             Canberra ACT 2601

ps. I did try to post something about this problem last week, but 
apparently my posting got eaten  ...