Indeed great info, none the less though you can grab new age routers for cheaper that can do more. Old Cisco routers are going the way of the dodo bird. DDWRT ftw!
Cheers!! On Oct 10, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Sean Cody <[email protected]> wrote: > That's super cool! > Thanks for doing that. > > -- > Sean (mobile) > > On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:38 PM, David Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I took an hour or so break from studying and did some digging into the 871s. >> >> First up you can use a standard 64mb/128mb/(or in my case 256mb double >> sided) pc133 cl3 sdram dimm to upgrade the memory from the default 128mb. >> The 128mb dimm only gave me a 64mb boost so i tried the 256mb dimm and got >> the maximum amount possible in an 871 series. >> >> Secondly, the flash on the board is only 20mb plus a 4mb strataflash chip on >> a card (with decoupling caps, and 3-4 resistor points which are likely used >> for id bits).......I think it might be possible to just buy a larger chip on >> ebay, and swap them out, possibly with fiddling with the resistor locations >> (currently unpopulated) on the board. I suspect however that this will >> destroy the current firmware/flash filesystem on the router so a serial >> xmodem transfer is probably required to realize this. One could always just >> try and find a cheap cisco branded card of course..... >> >> Finally, the 871s have an internal mini pci (not mini pci-e!) slot, and if >> you have an Atheros ar5212 based wifi card from a circa 2005 >> dell/acer/whatever laptop, you can do a bit of work in rommon and enable >> wireless functionality (albeit a/b/g only). >> >> References: >> >> >> Ram expansion: >> http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding-Off-The-Shelf-Memory-to-a-Cisco-871/ >> >> Wlan card: >> http://cmc.site11.com/2012/11/how-to-turn-a-cisco-871-into-a-871w-wireless-router/ >> >> Cheers, >> >> David Stewart >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Michael K >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> And then somehow you end up with Apple routers! >> >> (IOS, not iOS. I remember all the hubbub back in 2010 when Apple announced >> the name change.) >> >> -----Original Message----- From: David Stewart >> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:32 AM >> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] SkullSpace Discount Router sales >> >> I followed the directions left and finished >> wiping the 1700s. All that is left is the 1800s and Collins sksp >> stack on the shelf. >> Connected by Motorola >> >> Sean Cody <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Progress… >> >> We have all the 800 series all wiped. >> Two of the 1700's were wiped when I left. >> And a couple folks were working on them as I was leaving (having >> figured out the right method). >> >> I spent a bit too long fighting with TFTP. >> Instead of just fighting that we setup a little pipeline of 3 stations >> to wipe the 800 series ones and we got through the whole set so fast >> we had to recount to be sure we were not mistaken. >> >> When I got home everything fell into place (which is bound to be the case). >> It turns out I was fighting something the 800 series does strangely in >> that the ethernet ports by default are not in any particular vlan. >> Just adding one of the ports to the default vlan and it all works >> great. The mistake there was expecting the ports to be in the default >> vlan by default. >> >> I have an 850 flashed with colin's supplied images. >> We can flash all the firmware updates on my next visit and we can >> literally blast through it in an hour or so (the longest part is the >> damned things booting). >> >> The 870's need a different firmware than we currently have access to. >> I've also got a 1711 iOS updated from Colin's set as well so I'm very >> confident that I can wipe the rest on my next visit. >> >> Now with Colin being the grand poobah of these things. >> He can decide how to proceed but regardless all the 800 series have >> been wiped (save for two which have no flash so they are wiped, I can >> recover now them though). >> >> Doing the iOS updates can be a big harrowing as there isn't enough >> flash to whole both the current image and the new one so you have to >> erase it…. as well on the 1711's I can't remember how to NOT erase the >> flash when downloading a new image (note SDM and it appears IPS is >> installed on these so you'll probably want to get copies of these >> BEFORE wiping out the flash (unless Colin can get those too). >> >> The 17XX's WICs are riveted in as well so if you want to replace them… >> well you have to drill it out. >> >> Finally… if you are working with the 800's set the serial port of >> 115200 8n1 and the 1711's should be 9600 8n1. >> >> For those fast enough to grab the 1800's (you bastards…:P) I can show >> you how to wipe and update those. >> >> -- >> Sean >> P.S. 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