Hello again :)
Home lab, I'll always have a home lab, until the day I become virtual too.
As far as upgrading goes, I'm too old to fall for all that baloney. Bill Gates did it, they all do it, they all tell you on Day1 that this is the greatest thing and you need it now. Then on day3 that thing needs to be upgraded, then the same on Day5, and Day7, and Day9.....it's part of the natural (or unnatural) progression of a company.
I'll give you a motto I made up, about life in general:
Companies, nations, groups in general, are like trees, like all living things, they start, they grow, and they end. cisco is on it's way towards the end. I see it. In 2 decades it has gotten closer to being at the end. And if I had the money, it would be fairly easy to help cisco get right to the end a lot quicker. cisco does a lot of things badly, worse every year. part of it's the nation, the people. But, the folks at the top, the CEO, CIO, etc, they will all go to another co. when the time is at hand, they move from one place to another, not knowing exactly how to run a business, but living off what WAS, just like we are in the US. We are living as a NAtion off what WAS, not what IS or WILL be.
SELL, as they say on Wall St.
Thx for the advice though.
Oh, and besides the factthe 25xx has only slow ethernet, there's no reason ipv6 code can't be squeezed into an IOS. No reason except one. MONEY. How would cisco sell newer junk ? The 25xx series even SOUNDS better as it was made better, it feels right compared to new junk. Same with the PIX, the OS FEELS RIGHTS, it is not something you can see but feel, due I think to how it was coded.
Rambling over !
