Saturday, July 3, 2010

Cisco IOS under Solaris

Seeing anything strange below?

%SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested by console. Reload Reason: Reload command.
unix_reload()

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Cisco IOS Software, Solaris Software (UNIX-P-M), Experimental Version 12.2(20080714:162947) [arvinder-ss_auto_nightly 147]
Copyright (c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 24-Sep-08 12:28 by arvinder
Image text-base: 0x00011D98, data-base: 0x022F2008

Solaris Unix (Sparc) processor with 56561K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 122882152
4 Ethernet interfaces
16K bytes of NVRAM.

Press RETURN to get started!

*Mar 1 00:00:00.527: Bootstrap Emulator called with code 135
%SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --
Cisco IOS Software, Solaris Software (UNIX-P-M), Experimental Version 12.2(20080714:162947) [arvinder-ss_auto_nightly 147]
Copyright (c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 24-Sep-08 12:28 by arvinder

Router#sh ver
Cisco IOS Software, Solaris Software (UNIX-P-M), Experimental Version 12.2(20080714:162947) [arvinder-ss_auto_nightly 147]
Copyright (c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 24-Sep-08 12:28 by arvinder

ROM: Bootstrap program is Solaris

Router uptime is 43 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload at 0
System restarted at XXX
System image file is "unix:./.image"

Solaris Unix (Sparc) processor with 56561K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 122882144
4 Ethernet interfaces
16K bytes of NVRAM.

Configuration register is 0x0

Although the Cisco IOU (IOS-on-Unix) simulator is quite old, i hope some time in the future it will be provided to customers too (i guess it started being used internally by tac people to simulate customer scenarios and now it's being used for various "internal" labs too). It also seems a much better alternative than the one that's included in the various written exam simulation labs. Some years ago, there was a rumor that Cisco employees would get in trouble for even mentioning its existence and certainly if they ever gave access to somebody (only a very small number of Cisco employees had access to it). Nowadays, that it's used widely internally, i hope the above rumor has ceased to exist.

Please do not ask here for information where to get it. Just talk to your ****.