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Quickly upgrade Cisco routers using drag-and-drop
Overview
Performing firmware updates and configuration backups for Cisco routers used to take forever. Now, thanks to commodity CF memory and USB memory sticks, these tasks hardly take any time at all.
In the old days, upgrading Cisco routers typically required you to have access to a TFTP or FTP server and you had to have basic network configuration before you could begin to download firmware or configuration files. Even when everything was ready to roll, downloading tens of megabytes of firmware binaries was time-consuming.
Fortunately for network engineers, the newer Cisco 1800, 2800, and 3800 series routers use commodity CF memory cards that can be loaded into any media adapter. As a result, you can do firmware updates in seconds using drag-and-drop. Not only that, but the newest Cisco routers with IOS 12.4 or better will even read USB memory sticks. So you can upgrade, back up, or recover your firmware and configuration to an additional removable device. Here's an overview of how you can tap into the benefits of these capabilities.
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| Publisher | TechRepublic | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2006 | Downloads | 175 |
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