Ryan,
I'll go and try it right now.
Many thanks,
Hugo
""Ryan LaTorre"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> A good question that can save people a lot of headache in a production
> environment.
>
> When you download the IOS from CCO, there's a table that lists the
filename,
> file size, date published and a more info hyperlink (shown as a "?"
> character.) Click on the question mark. One of the items listed is the MD5
> hash of the file as verified at Cisco. After downloading the IOS, run the
> md5 hash algorithm locally. The results should match. Otherwise, download
> the IOS again...
>
> You can find source code/executable binaries that calculate md5 on the
net.
> Although more commonly used on unix systems, there are win32
> implementations. All in all, about a 60 kB download gives you peace of
mind,
> before the upgrade.
>
> Here's the version of md5 for win32 that I use:
> http://weblink.filegenie.com/?MEMBERID=73&FILENAME=md5.zip
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 11:22 AM
> Subject: Cisco IOS flash image checksum verification
>
>
> > Hi, does anybody know whether there is a way to check the integrity of
> Cisco
> > IOS images (on my PC's disk) before trying to load them into a router?
> >
> > Alternatively if someone could tell me or give me a reference to the
> > algorithm I'll write a program to do it and make it available.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Hugo
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> >
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