Posted August 10, 2019 People ask why people care about Apple's bogus rules for fixing and ownership of a product people purchase, and this is why. Other companies see what they're doing and emulate it. https://www.ifixit.com/News/cisco-is-making-it-more-difficult-to-use-pre-owned-hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 10, 2019 This is just another reason added to the list that I don't recommend CISCO's enterprise gear to people. Guides & Tutorials: PROXMOX - Rebuilding ZFS RAID rpool After Disk Failure Mass Deploying Customized Windows 10/11 Installs Building a GNU/Linux Based Windows Deployment Server GNU/Linux Installer Server: Installation & Configuration How to: Use (i)PXE to Install Windows from a Network Why Memorize IP's When You Can Self-Host DNS Instead? Ventoy - The USB Multi-Boot Utility! Introduction to PXE/iPXE Network Boot Featuring FreeBSD & Ubuntu Server Don't see what you need? Check the Full List or *PM me, if I haven't made it I'll add it to the list. *NOTE: I'll only add it to the list if the request is something I know I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 11, 2019 Cisco is not the only one playing this game in the networking space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 11, 2019 Author 40 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said: Cisco is not the only one playing this game in the networking space Aruba is the only one I can really think of. Juniper is actually moving more towards Open Source, but we will see how that pans out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 11, 2019 11 hours ago, mynameisjuan said: Cisco is not the only one playing this game in the networking space At least they don't charge you to use third party optics like some vendors Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 11, 2019 16 hours ago, Windows7ge said: This is just another reason added to the list that I don't recommend CISCO's enterprise gear to people. As far as I can tell this only applies for DNA licenses, everything else is perpetual. I'm going to do some more digging though but I have a feeling this is something that's being blown out of proportion because Cisco won't open up a bit more about what's tied to Smart licenses and what's not. Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 11, 2019 1 minute ago, Lurick said: As far as I can tell this only applies for DNA licenses, everything else is perpetual. I'm going to do some more digging though but I have a feeling this is something that's being blown out of proportion because Cisco won't open up a bit more about what's tied to Smart licenses and what's not. When people post "dirt" on what companies are doing I always take it with a grain of salt but regardless of the accuracy of what's above I have my own reasons that I don't pressure people to go out and buy their switches & routers. Guides & Tutorials: PROXMOX - Rebuilding ZFS RAID rpool After Disk Failure Mass Deploying Customized Windows 10/11 Installs Building a GNU/Linux Based Windows Deployment Server GNU/Linux Installer Server: Installation & Configuration How to: Use (i)PXE to Install Windows from a Network Why Memorize IP's When You Can Self-Host DNS Instead? Ventoy - The USB Multi-Boot Utility! Introduction to PXE/iPXE Network Boot Featuring FreeBSD & Ubuntu Server Don't see what you need? Check the Full List or *PM me, if I haven't made it I'll add it to the list. *NOTE: I'll only add it to the list if the request is something I know I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, Windows7ge said: When people post "dirt" on what companies are doing I always take it with a grain of salt but regardless of the accuracy of what's above I have my own reasons that I don't pressure people to go out and buy their switches & routers. That's fine. I still want to make sure that it's just DNA center stuff that needs a Smart license Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 13, 2019 after their IOS software got hacked to hell and mocked they shut all their software up so you need invoices and other crap to even get the software. go with Ubiquiti or something cuz messing with old cisco gear is a pain in the ass sometimes imposable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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