At 05:38 PM 11/1/2007, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >I went down this route myself (for no particular reason other than >geekiness of being able to see interesting docsis details which are hidden >in residential grade equipment) and was quickly beaten down into the kind >of submission that makes one happy to buy a $50 linksys cable modem. > >In theory the main difference between the 924 and 925 is the hardware >accelerated 3des (where hw accelerated is still too slow to be worth >bothering, around 2Mbps), but in practice there is a difference in what >code you can run. The 924 has fixed flash (which can't be upgraded) of >4MB, and there is absolutely no modern code which will fit on it. I went >through every image CCO had available, found exactly one which in theory >supported DOCSIS 1.1, but it would immediately crash every time the cable0 >interface would come up. > >The whole thing was a pretty big waste of time for me. With only DOCSIS >1.1 supported, and only a 10M half duplex ethernet link, the thing has a >very limited lifespan even if it could be made to work today. > > > On a related note, does Cisco still make a CM or have they bowed out to > > Moto and their 5100 series CMs? We run Moto CMs and Arris MTAs. > >The only offically supported route seems to be the DOCSIS 2.0 WIC, but its >overpriced even on ebay. :)
I have a 924, and ran into similar issues with the IOS upgrade crashing when cable0 would come up.. :( _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
