Cisco 851 nightmare

Ricochet J · 26 Jul 2006 at 18:55

What devices use Riverstone?
And as for "write mem", I thought it was "copy running-config startup-config" to save changes?

bigredshark · 26 Jul 2006 at 19:03

eXSBass said:
What devices use Riverstone?
And as for "write mem", I thought it was "copy running-config startup-config" to save changes?

riverstone networks have just been bought by lucent, they make high end switch routers and are competitors to cisco (though not very good ones - they have some gems of commands, 'system-set syslog-server' being one you don't want to try out loud too often.

write mem works just fine as a save, copying running to startup would work too but is just the long way. it's write mem on cisco, save active on riverstone and commit on a juniper (my god i don't beleive i have complete command sets for 3 CLIs commited to memory.)

FordPrefect · 26 Jul 2006 at 20:45

If you think they are bad try a high end nortel layer 3 switch

tolien · 26 Jul 2006 at 21:32

eXSBass said:
Tolien, a little off topic but what do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?

See profile. Before you ask the next question, it isn't CS (nor anything related) I'm studying either.

Do you have a CCIE or something?

Not even a CCNA, though I did mean to do it (and I've got the Semester 3/4 books here) at one point.

You seem to know an awful lot about Cisco and you seem to know the CLI off by heart!

If only I knew the more important stuff as well (and I don't know IOS that well, so that's saying something).

Just "wr" works to save your running config too. Less keypresses == win

Rich · 27 Jul 2006 at 22:28

tolien said:
Just the flash I would've thought.

It's not just "purists" that recommend not using the GUI - if you want to get beyond the tiny proportion of the feature set it exposes, you've got to use the CLI. SDM also has a nice tendency of mangling configs.
I'm not disagreeing that it's a good start though, but nothing more.

Yep, SDM makes a right dogs dinner of configs, but if you never intend on using the CLI thats not an issue, but if you dont use the CLI i would also question the need to buy a cisco router in the first place.
SDM has come on leaps and bounds. I mean, the config for remote access VPN is simplified to the point of 4 button clicks. Thats about the only thing id consider using it for though