Back Plates keep more then just dust out
I received a call from a old co-worker today needing help to trouble shoot a T1 customer of his. The line kept bouncing up and down. The telco checked the line and said it looked fine up to the CSU/DSU. After talking to him for a few minutes and him explaining the situation to me I told him we should replace the router. I told him to hook it up to a console so I could copy the config off of it. During this conversation he kept telling me how there was rat crap all over the place and how bad the place smelt. When he got the router to a console that I could log into I saw the output that shows below. He also told me that the router was missing one of the WIC card slots and rat crap had actually poured out of the router when he tipped on its back. Rats in the router anyone?
Copyright (c) 1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C1700 platform with 32768 Kbytes of main memory
program load complete, entry point: 0×80008000, size: 0×7ee488
Self decompressing the image : #################################################
################################################################################
######## [OK]
Smart Init is enabled
smart init is sizing iomem
ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE
MainBoard 0X00027A80 1720
0X000F3BB0 public buffer pools
0X00211000 public particle pools
0X0002 0X0000DC00 Card in slot 1
TOTAL: 0X0033A230
If any of the above Memory Requirements are
“UNKNOWN”, you may be using an unsupported
configuration or there is a software problem and
system operation may be compromised.
Memory required: 36400364 bytes, Memory available: 33554432 bytes
INSUFFICIENT MEMORY TO LOAD IMAGE!
The difference between Memory required and Memory available is the additional
memory you need to run the router. Alternatel
may cause the memory requirement to decrease, and may allow you to at least
use the router with reduced functionality until you get more memory.
*** System received a Software forced crash ***
signal= 0×17, code= 0×200, context= 0×8000620c
PC = 0xffffffff, Vector = 0×200, SP = 0xffffffff
System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(3)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C1700 platform with 32768 Kbytes of main memory
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*** line too large ***
$$ large ***
monitor: command “large” not found
$$ und
monitor: command “und” not found
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monitor: command “not” not found
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*** line too large ***
AND it continues to repeat from there….
Stay tuned for pictures of dead rats or whatever we may find inside the router.