Routers are all wiped and flashed save for 2x1700's and 3x851's. Those could be resurrected though I wasted an hour or so fighting with serial based loading (xmodem) and tftp would start but flake out almost instantly. One smaller 1700 wouldn't boot ANY firmware I threw at it (re-flashed it 3 times). Uploading firmware via serial (modem) was going to take 5 hours+ so I just gave up on that and moved on. If someone wants to work on that… I can walk them through it, I just don't have that kind of patience.
They all have the latest firmware available for their hardware and that is listed on the router. Where reasonable RAM and Flash capacities are noted as well. The 800's took about 6-8 mins each (2 minutes to grab the image). The 1700's took double that… (533 seconds for the just for image to download). The 1800's took less. Much easier to work with once you knew their quirks (note swapping the flash and uploading new images to cards post boot help speed things up but there were two cards that gave me some grief though I got them done as well). I have a loose count of 40 or so of the little bastards, though most of it was quite mindless as I had a good factory plan going on and have done this kind of work before but at a well… more ambitious scale. The insight here is since you are working with serial…it's just a text buffer so the first one you do gives you the script you can just cut and paste in sections to make the process completely repeatable and ensure every system gets the same treatment in the same order. Everything else is just timing, good cable management and patience. Regardless if you have any of the items there tagged, they are ready for pickup though i would recommend giving Colin a heads up so he can do whatever it is he wants to do with that information. For the record I have an 851, 871 and 1711 at home of which I intend on returning the 851 and 1711. -- Sean P.S. the hardest part was realizing after the 40K drive into the city that I left my USB->RS232 adapters at home… lost an hour to attempting to get a belkin pda adapter to work but that piece of crap just wasn't amenable, so another trip home and back lost me another hour or so. :P _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
